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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
"I am not a number"!
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Someone the article quoted said that it takes just 33 bytes of publicly available information to identify you amongst all people there are.
It takes just a very small handful of tracking points from your smartphone to identify you amongst all people by your movement pattern. I think it were only 4 different position points from you smartphone that you happen to repeatedly meet - and you are known.
That is why anonymous consumer data collecting is a myth. The data more and more easily can be attributed to a living, real person. And judging it by the mounting heaps of personalised mail adverts friends of mine are getting who both are pretty careless about their data and privacy protection, data and identity do get connected by somebody indeed.
The Israelis claimed already years ago they had a software that allows them to predict terror strikes. What is more terrifying here: terror - or the the possibilities of abuse of this technology? and it will be abused, this much is certain for everybody not being hopelessly naive, I think. Everything man invents and every knowledge that he gains, so far also has been abused. I see no reason why this should be expected to change all of a sudden.