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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."

3 of 116 comments (clear)

  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.

  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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