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Wow, before clicking I thought, "these better be anonymized" then before the page loaded I thought, "even if they are, with just a few points of data (like, I k
by lubujackson 11y ago
Wow, before clicking I thought, "these better be anonymized" then before the page loaded I thought, "even if they are, with just a few points of data (like, I know someone went to work these 3 days but not these two days, which plates match that pattern?) it would be possible to locate some people and therefore know all other movements they made that month."
But then it's not even anonymous, so I could just look my neighbor up by their license plate. What about jealous partners? What about thieves that instantly know everyone's work patterns? What about your boss seeing if you actually did stay home sick that one time?
These sort of "emergent" privacy leaks are interesting. Information that is already "out there" but being collected and distributed for the first time is like a system shock when it happens.