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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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