Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Apple Patents Technique That Uses Cloned 'Doppelgangers' To Protect Your Privacy

Greenberg, Andy. "Apple Patents Technique That Uses Cloned 'Doppelgangers' To Protect Your Privacy." Forbes, June 20, 2012.

From the article: “Apple received a patent for what it describes as a system that clones Internet users, gives them multiple digital identities, and uses phony attributes of those clones to “pollute” tracking systems with false leads that protect the real user’s privacy from “Big Brother”–or what the author of the patent describes as the “Little Brothers” of automated network surveillance.” Read more