Nowadays, leaving an Internet trail of convincing evidence for a fake identity is increasingly difficult-and a phoney detail is worse than none at all.

而现在，造假的身份要逃脱互联网追踪非常困难，有时候假造的细节暴露甚至比信息缺失还要严重。

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The Web companies are, in effect, taking the trail of crumbs people leave behind as they move around the Internet, and then analyzing them to anticipate people’s next steps.

事实上，网站公司通过追踪人们在浏览网页时遗留的信息，加以分析，接着推断人们的下步行为。

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Have you left a trail of abandoned blogs around the Internet?

在网上你是不是留下一大堆没写完的博客？

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