New Apple Patent #825265: Will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother?

Posted by asadi on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:16PM
from the patft.uspto.gov dept.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,205,265.PN.&OS=PN/8,205,265&RS=PN/8,205,265

Apple has just been awarded patent number 825265, which describes how Apple could create a cloned version of your digital identity in order to protect you from corporate or government electronic surveillance.

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Re:New Apple Patent #825265: Will Apple clone you to save yo... by Codhisattva on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @09:12PM (#4140017)

This looks to me to be a useful way to detect leaked datasets.

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Re:New Apple Patent #825265: Will Apple clone you to save yo... by googoobaby on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:18PM (#4139875)

No one can save you from Big Zuck.

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