Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by asadlionpk on Sunday January 28, 2018 @01:01PM
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Hey there, fellow neighbor!
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by RandomCSGeek on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:38PM
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Hello brother!
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by kakarot on Sunday January 28, 2018 @09:52AM
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I don't think a heat map of your surrounding environment counts as "your data".
Virtually every government seems to feel the same way, and in a rare moment I find myself in agreeance, even if this perspective currently manifests itself mostly in drug-related stings
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by RandomCSGeek on Sunday January 28, 2018 @10:40AM
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Not the heat map of surroundings, but the map of routes taken by people, especially when it's not anonymised due to getting overlapped by other data, can surely be considered as personal data. Like in this case, it's with soldiers patrolling remote areas.
I guess the devs who made this heatmap forgot that one should remove data when there is not enough info to anonymise it by virtue of aggregation.(overlapping of multiple paths in this case).
What I was suggesting is that people should care about who gets to see the data they generate and try to minimise the count.
btw I didn't understand what you meant in the second sentence.
On a more serious note though, this is an good example of how important it is to control our own data. It only makes me take even more efforts to secure my data and to try to make less of it available to others.
We really need to convert Internet to what it was meant to be, a "decentralised system"