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Xeroxing Personal Data From Your Browsing History

Posted by samzenpus on from the xerox-knows dept.

grease_boy writes "Xerox has filed a patent covering a technique to recover demographic information like your age, sex and perhaps even your income by analysing the pattern of web pages you browse. They want to license the technique to online advertisers and shops. Read the full patent here."

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  1. In order to protect my identity ... by khasim · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I must download more lesbian pr0n.

    Get real. This is worthy of a patent? Just by the fact that you're reading this post you're most likely male, some college, etc.

    1. Re:In order to protect my identity ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ...I must download more lesbian pr0n.

      Not needed at all... Xerox will find that you spend 20 hours a day on Slashdot... and conclude you don't have any girlfriends.... and get your kicks watching porn!

      To really confuse Xerox, you need to shop online for diapers, ladies' undergarments, walking sticks, power glasses and valentine's day cards.... besides lurking on Slashdot with insightful comments. That would confuse the hell out of them!

    2. Re:In order to protect my identity ... by inviolet · · Score: 2, Funny

      To really confuse Xerox, you need to shop online for diapers, ladies' undergarments, walking sticks, power glasses and valentine's day cards....

      [Marge] "Whatever you've got planned tonight, count me out!"

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      FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
  2. Re:So if I'm looking at bestiality pr0n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sheep farmer, Male, Scotland.

  3. Re:More lame patents by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course not. This is Slashdot, no-one here understands patents and no-one here thinks anything should be patentable.

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    How we know is more important than what we know.
  4. Re:So if I'm looking at bestiality pr0n by grolschie · · Score: 2, Funny

    hhhmmm... that's weird. My data-mining algorithm produces: "Sheep farmer, Male, Australia". Well, it's not an exact science. :-)

  5. Xerox, my ass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've also given name to a photocopy of my buttcheeks.

    PC LOAD TP.

  6. Re:More lame patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Congratulations. Your paranoia has limited the marketing you receive to shotgun style messages you aren't interested in. Your victory over the forces arrayed against you is astounding.

  7. Re:More lame patents by martin-boundary · · Score: 2, Funny

    With all the dupes, it's enough to read one's browsing history and predict TFA :)