Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

Re:Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Mil... by zsgoldberg on Monday January 28, 2019 @10:42AM (#19018273)

Headline seems click-baity?

"It then models this anonymized data in simulations — creating a synthetic population that faithfully replicates a city’s real-world patterns but that “obscures the real-world travel habits of individual people,"

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Re:Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Mil... by huebomont on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:31AM (#19018757)

If you trust the anonymization sure - many don't for good reason, and this is not opt-in.

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Re:Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Mil... by GenerationRous on Monday January 28, 2019 @09:43PM (#19023269)

Headline isn't clickbait; your comment is deceptive. The article actually says this:

"If Sidewalk Labs has access to people’s unique paths of movement prior to making its synthetic models, wouldn’t it be possible to figure out who they are, based on where they go to sleep or work?"

People can read the article for themselves and see for themselves.

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