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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by chalst on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:43PM (#27621252)
> that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective.

I hate to get all Godwin's law on you, but you don't think, say, Jews in the 1930s might have had reason to worry about the business model of third-party analytics companies if they existed back then?

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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by mixmastamyk on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:54PM (#27624311)
They did exist, that's where the connection to IBM census machines comes in. The earlier census made targeting undesirables easy.
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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by olegious on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:15PM (#27621730)
It is a stretch to connect anonymized data collection that can't be used to ID anyone to the Holocaust.
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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:27PM (#27621887)
It is a stretch, but then "anonymized data collection that can't be used to ID anyone" is also not an accurate description of what the advertising industry does.
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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by olegious on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#27622154)
If you take an individual ID from a group of 100K IDs that represent a data segment, how do you back that out into PII?
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