I am reminded of an interesting observation by the mathematician Terence Tao about how our anonymity on the Internet and in a connected world is so fragile [1].

I am reminded of an interesting observation by the mathematician Terence Tao about how our anonymity on the Internet and in a connected world is so fragile [1]. Basically, because there are only 3 billion internet users, every person can be uniquely identified by a 31 bit number. The uncovering of each bit gets one closer to the identity of the person. Seen in this light, one would expect metadata to uncover quite a few of the 31 bits! [1] https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/8vmpA9fgRMq?iem=4&gpawv=1&hl=en-US https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/8vmpA9fgRMq?iem=...