Beerball Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 All I can think as I have just started to read this is that I can't wait to get to the reader comments at the end. Edit: I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 With all of our identifying information getting sliced, diced, and sold, by everyone from credit card companies to Facebook, is there really such a thing as the anonymous Web anymore? Consider this demonstration from the late ’90s by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Latanya Sweeney. She took three commonly available data points: sex (male), ZIP code (02138), and date of birth (July 31, 1945). Those seemingly anonymous attributes could have described lots of people, right? Actually, no. She proved they could belong to just one person: former governor William Weld. She tells me that 87 percent of Americans can now be identified with just these three data points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hossage Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Oooh baby, I like it raw. Screw the cowardly patriots fan who wrote this. People saying how they feel! Others breaking news stories! GASP, overblown rhetoric! Get a clue, Boston wimps. This article is in favor of censorship and editing the comments people post online, using the excuse of bullying to justify what could be political bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Who copyed who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBeane Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 On that note, I know a kid with the same exact birthday as me from my town. I'm one of those 13% apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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