Timeline for Can computer performance metrics be personal data?
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| Jun 28 at 6:44 | comment | added | gnasher729 | 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. | |
| Jun 27 at 8:14 | history | edited | User65535 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 27 at 7:52 | comment | added | User65535 | @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. | |
| Jun 27 at 7:05 | comment | added | quarague | 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. | |
| Jun 27 at 3:58 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 27 at 0:18 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | 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. | |
| Jun 26 at 22:06 | history | asked | User65535 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |