Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance
by bogomipz on Saturday June 02, 2018 @06:46PM
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The article states:
"Another reason for taking this route is that extensions like TrackMeNot and AdNauseum obfuscate your existing data-sets stored by third parties. Using these extensions for a few months, we break Googles ability to understand and monetize your data. Because by then you have created havoc in the data-set they have. And the things they assume about you are invalid."
This is fascinating. Couldn't this technique of generating lots of random noise if it gained wide spread adoption completely destroy the surveillance business model?
"Another reason for taking this route is that extensions like TrackMeNot and AdNauseum obfuscate your existing data-sets stored by third parties. Using these extensions for a few months, we break Googles ability to understand and monetize your data. Because by then you have created havoc in the data-set they have. And the things they assume about you are invalid."
This is fascinating. Couldn't this technique of generating lots of random noise if it gained wide spread adoption completely destroy the surveillance business model?