C'è pure di meglio, da :
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/14/043200.shtml
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theodp writes "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted advertising as 'part of the OS.' Microsoft, who once teamed with law enforcement to protect consumers from unwanted advertising, goes on to boast that the invention can 'take steps to verify ad consumption,' be used to block ads from competitors, and even sneak a peek at 'user document files, user e-mail files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, [and] computer status messages' to deliver more tightly targeted ads."
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Tradotto: Hanno registrato un brevetto software per il kernel:
-il kernel può bloccare la pubblicità della concorrenza
-controllare che le pubblicità vengano realmente viste
-spiare files, e-mail, files musicali, podcast scaricati, i settaggi
e pure i messaggi del computer all'utente
(step 10 e 11 del brevetto:
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10. The computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions of claim 1, wherein processing the tag comprises retrieving additional data corresponding to the tag from another source.
11. The computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions of claim 10, wherein the another source is at least one of user document files, user email, user music files, podcast files, computer status messages, and a profile database storing existing tag data.
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"Per permettere di fare pubblicità meglio mirata"
Qualcuno ce l'ha ancora su con Google? Ecco il vero grande fratello...