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Re:Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communitie... by dsfyu404ed on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:59AM (#22768725)
Given a pattern of movement it's trivially easy to identify an individual by cross referencing with other cheaply/freely available data sets.
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Re:Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communitie... by pintxo on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:03AM (#22768748)
Fortunately this is highly aggregated data without individual movements.
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Re:Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communitie... by dsfyu404ed on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:12AM (#22768815)
This is built on the normal Google location tracking systems. We both know that while they may be providing aggregate stats now they have all the data they need to provide individual location stats. Because the capability exists there is the temptation to use it, especially if the situation worsens more than expected.
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