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March 30, 2005
TV as ID
It might be possible to uniquely identify you by your TV viewing habits, according to New Scientist:
Martin Russell at the University of Birmingham, and colleagues from UK firms Ensigma Technologies and Snape Signals Research, compiled TV profiles of 33 volunteers who logged the shows they watched for nine months. Based on these profiles the researchers tried to identify the viewers from a two-week study of their viewing habits. Their IDs were accurate 82 per cent of the time.
Category: March of progress
Posted by Brian Chin at March 30, 2005 01:02 PM
