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This wouldn't work anyways. Especially for datamining-is-our-core-competency company like Google it should be relatively trivial to match your old and new iden
by bd 16y ago
This wouldn't work anyways.
Especially for datamining-is-our-core-competency company like Google it should be relatively trivial to match your old and new identity.
There are plenty of ways how to do it. There are only 7 billion people, you just need 33 bits to uniquely identify someone [1].
On social networks you leave much bigger trail of clues (photos, timelines, locations, friends, activity patterns, likes/dislikes, writing samples, etc).
Put together enough of vague data and your identity will pop out. Remember EFF's Panopticlick [2]?
[1] http://33bits.org/ http://33bits.org/
[2] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- photon_off 16y agoHow does one determine 33 bits of information about the world population such that each bit is 'on' in very close to half the population?
- bd 16y agoTry this: http://en.akinator.com/ http://en.akinator.com/ It's pretty good at figuring out who you think about (fictional or real) just by asking yes/no questions.