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  • Presumably this would only identify a unique individual if they had a unique type of computer. Otherwise, you would expect that everyone using a Foocorp Model 1234 computer would have identical (or statistically indistinguishable) performance stats for all possible tests, and therefore would not be identifiable from each other. Now, whether that makes a difference legally, I don't know.
    – Nate Eldredge
    Commented Jun 27 at 0:18
  • Do you have an explanation of what this code actually does? It has the word performance in it but all I see is a bunch of maths that possibly could measure the performance of some computer hardware but not the performance of the user.
    – quarague
    Commented Jun 27 at 7:05
  • @quarague I do not feel well qualified to do so, I was wondering which SE site to ask about that. I THINK it is to fingerprint a particular computer by the performance of the hardware but I could be wrong.
    – User65535
    Commented Jun 27 at 7:52
  • You can easily identify people using very expensive top of the range computers. And have a marketing campaign aimed at people who spent more than £6,000 on their computer.
    – gnasher729
    Commented Jun 28 at 6:44