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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by scarface74 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:23AM (#34091427)
And what are these “pseudononymous” identifiers that you worry about? It’s much easier to track across the web than apps.

And how is installing the Hilton app going to allow another app to find out information about you?

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by Nextgrid on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:05AM (#34091766)
Web/apps have a lot of pseudonymous data points but rarely have a link to your real-life identity. Real-life things like hotels have the latter but rarely the former. Installing an app allows data brokers to bridge the two identities.

> And how is installing the Hilton app going to allow another app to find out information about you?

Both apps rat out whatever they have on you to a data broker which then does the matching.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by scarface74 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:48AM (#34092052)
Don’t be handwavy, exactly what can an installed app find out about you without you giving it explicit permission?
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