{"id":94285,"date":"2016-07-02T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94285"},"modified":"2016-07-02T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:25:30","slug":"this-is-how-long-it-takes-to-completely-lose-your-anonymity-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/94285-this-is-how-long-it-takes-to-completely-lose-your-anonymity-on-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"This is how long it takes to completely lose your anonymity on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fict.2016.00008\/full\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a><\/strong> conducted by the Universiti Teknologi in Kuala Lumpur has determined how long it takes before you lose anonymity on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes of internet usage is all it takes for you to provide enough information to identify yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers recruited student volunteers and monitored their internet usage, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/internet\/30-minutes-of-browsing-the-web-will-expose-your-identity-1322912?\" target=\"_blank\">duration <\/a><\/strong>of the internet session, the number of websites browsed, and the total number of requests made.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed strong links between how a person acts on the internet and their personality in real life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be used to develop an intelligent internet service that can predict and personalize a user&#8217;s experience,&#8221; explained Ikusan R. Adeyami, lead author of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can also be used as a complementary way of increasing security for online identification and authentication. Law enforcement agencies can also apply our findings in the investigation of online crime cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to become a professional streamer in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/92721-how-to-become-a-professional-streamer-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to become a professional streamer in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 12 Celebrities who are secretly hardcore gamers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/92555-12-celebrities-who-are-secretly-hardcore-gamers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">12 Celebrities who are secretly hardcore gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 versus Nvidia GTX 900 Series \u2013 pricing and performance\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93581-amd-radeon-rx-480-versus-nvidia-gtx-900-series-pricing-and-performance.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 versus Nvidia GTX 900 Series \u2013 pricing and performance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study conducted by the Universiti Teknologi in Kuala Lumpur has determined how long it takes before you lose anonymity on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[19251,197,2378,1886],"class_list":["post-94285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-anonymity","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94759,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94285\/revisions\/94759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}