Apple files digital identity cloning patent
2012-06-22 08:18 by Daniela
Tags: Apple
Apple filed a new patent Tuesday that would allow it to clone a person’s digital identity in order to throw off those trying to track people on the Internet. In a nutshell, Apple would clone your online identity - known as the principal - but add fake data to those cloned profiles. The idea is, with so much conflicting information, online eavesdroppers would not be able to tell what is actually true, thereby keeping your real data secure.
In the patent, Apple refers to data collection companies as "Little Brothers," a play on the character of Big Brother from the George Orwell novel 1984.
"In a sense, thousands of "Little Brothers" or automated programs can monitor virtually every action of users over the Internet. The data about a user can be accumulated and combined with other data about the user to form electronic profiles of the users."
"In a sense if the user engages in any Internet activity, information may be successfully collected about that user," Apple wrote. "Thus, even the most cautious Internet users are still being profiled over the Internet via dataveillance techniques from automated Little Brothers."
"Areas of interest are assigned to the cloned identity, where a number of the areas of interest are divergent from true interests of the principal," the patent said. "One or more actions are automatically processed in response to the assigned areas of interest. The actions appear to network eavesdroppers to be associated with the principal and not with the cloned identity."
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