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Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the like-they-don't-already-know dept.

jcatcw writes "Microsoft research on Internet user profiling could lead to tools that help repressive regimes identify anonymous dissidents, the Reporters Without Borders advocacy group warned last Friday. Microsoft's new algorithms correctly guessed the gender of a Web surfer 80% of the time, and his or her age 60% of the time. "In China, it is conceivable that this type of technology would be used to spot Internet users who regularly access such 'subversive' content as news and information websites critical of the regime," the group said."

3 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. Re:oh noes! by HalifaxRage · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Asia was nothing but 13 year old girls?

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  2. Re:oh noes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Asia was nothing but 13 year old girls?

    Those are girls?

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