> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > > > From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > On Behalf Of The Fool
> > > > But interactive television is a perfect example of the way > > > > that new technology is challenging the whole concept of > > > > personally identifiable information. For instance, given just > > > > a birthday and a ZIP code, direct marketers claim they can > > > > match members of the public to existing databases of consumer > > > > information with 97% accuracy. > > > > --- > > > > > > Now that is scary. > > > > Perhaps but then again go into a room with 36 different people in it and > > you are 99% percent probable to have the same birthday as someone. > > Is it that if individual A is put in a room with 35 other people, 1 is > 99% likely to have the same birthday as A, or is it that, given 36 > people, it is 99% probable that 2 of them will share a birthday? > > I thought it was the second. My reading of your sentence suggests the > first. I forget. It was a problem in my high school math class, a considerable time ago. Thinking about it you are probably correct. See I admit to mistakes.
