Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid by lesuorac on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:38PM (#48143071)

> They tend to attempt to do this anonymized. How successful they are in anonymizing that is very much so up for debate.

Yeah I think the big thing to push or talk about is that there is no such thing as "anonymized".

There's only such as a thing as "can only be identified as X many people". Like for a given dataset you can make any data point correlated to 1 of say 50 people. If somebody is anonymizing data and they don't provide a k-anonmizity [1] you should just assume it's 1:1 and effectively not anonmized.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity

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Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid by bamnet on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:51PM (#48143582)

K-Anonymity isn't the only technique. Differential Privacy is arguably more robust.

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Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid by BobaFloutist on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:31PM (#48152814)

I know it wouldn't fix everything, but I think it wouldn't be a bad start to just make it generally illegal to deanonymize data that was collected with the promise of anonymity.

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