Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
by ScannerSparkly on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:05AM
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I doubt you could accurately identify a specific person
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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
by ben_w on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:52AM
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33 yes-no questions which each split the audience in half, uniquely identifies slightly more than the world population.
But any given website is much tighter than that: a regular visitor to Cambridge Evening News is unlikely to be based in राजनांदगांव, and vice versa.
Someone is regularly accessing the website of one local take-away restaurant in Larnaca, a gay men-only dating website, and Ars Technica? That’s probably already got you down to 2-15 people out of the ~3e9 on the internet, with just three specific websites in their history.
Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
by derivagral on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:11AM
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Why do you doubt this? Even if you can't always trust the 'unique' part, it is still information which can be combined to produce a more accurate profile.