Report: Microsoft building apps to personally identify anyone online
( posted from Guatemala / Xeni ) Microsoft is "developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history," according to an item in New Scientist: Link. (thanks, Chris)Share this post
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