Apple have patented the idea of using data clones to hide from surveillance: data clones that will browse the internet under your name but will look at basket-weaving sites instead of porn.
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In one of the stranger Apple patents that we've seen in recent months, author Stephen R Carter details a way of stopping eavesdroppers snooping on users by creating user clones. Patent 8,205,265, called Techniques to pollute electronic profiling was awarded by the Patent Office today.
The patent mentions the current technologies for evading tracking including the use of anonymisers and spyware-killers, but argue that they can never completely hide a user on the Internet: "even the most cautious Internet users are still being profiled over the Internet via dataveillance techniques from automated Little Brothers" Carter says.
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For more on this new Patent go to
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06..._clone_patent/