Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer

theodp writes "Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"

Comments

Awesome!

[KiwiCanuck]

Thanks Big Brother! (1984)

Bender just loves hookers

[TiggertheMad]

You seem to be referencing the episode of Futurerama(sp?) where Bender is visiting the moon. Bender is suggesting they start their own moon theme park, 'with blackjack and hookers', only to pause and add that the blackjack isn't really essential.

Ironic, no?

Re:Isn't that called Google?

[Blakey Rat]

and about half of your total web surfing (*cough* analytics *cough* doubleclick *cough)?

Why do you do the *cough* thing? Do you think that's clever or funny? It just makes your post hard to read, and mystifies the meaning of "analytics" and "doubleclick." (Although I think I understand what you were getting at...)