Microsoft Palladium is a system that combines software and hardware controls to create a “trusted” computing platform. The technology embeds “unique machine identifiers,” thus raising risks that user behavior may be subject to traffic analysis. Issues raised by Palladium are similar to privacy problems with the controversial Intel Pentium Serial Number. Microsoft expects to have elements of the system in place by 2004, but many questions remain regarding the Palladium system. The system purports to stop viruses by preventing the running of malicious programs.”]
Source: https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html