2003-04-16
... ? SecurityFocus HOME News: Fear of a Million Big BrothersLast month, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Laboratory for International Data Privacy even published a formal algorithm for "re-identifying" a Web surfer from pieces of information left like breadcrumbs on different sites. "The methodology involves constructing trails across locations from small amounts of seemingly anonymous or innocuous evidence the person has been there," the paper reads.
