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"and they every major network has robust safeguards in place to prevent you from working back to a single person’s web history." hahaha. THat's quite a talking
by DannyBee 10y ago
"and they every major network has robust safeguards in place to prevent you from working back to a single person’s web history."
hahaha.
THat's quite a talking point.
What would these "Robust safeguards" be?
The history of pretty much every study on this, ever, is that it's pretty easy to deaggregate and deanonymize data.
But look i'm sure, verizon, at&t, etc, those great bastions of "doing it right", have done this right too!
20 bucks says if someone buys large amounts of the aggregated data, they can extract significant information that can be pinpointed to individual congresspeople.
- derefr 10y agoThe safeguards might just be that they won't sell you "large amounts of" the aggregated data unless you're clearly a profit-driven multinational corporation rather than a ideologically-driven individual. KYC and all that.
- beefield 10y agoThat will be an interesting lawsuit to follow whether you are allowed to be discriminated against because of not being a profit-driven multinational corporation.
- matt4077 10y agoNo, it won't and yes, you are, respectively and unfortunately.
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoBecause ideologically-driven individuals don't work for profit-driven multinational corporations? Because they're never hacked by ideologically-driven individuals? That kind of safeguard to me sounds like the worst of both worlds: Not meaningfully safeguarding anything, and lost business. A "clearly profit-driven multinational corporation" will (practically by definition) care about the latter.
- ckastner 10y agoWhat about a profit-driven multinational corporation with political ties? Say it is indeed possible to pinpoint individual congresspeople, as the grandparent suggested. If some of these congresspeople have a browsing history they'd rather not have made public, identifying them could leave them open to blackmail.
- tedunangst 10y agoAt some point the threat also just takes the form of "here's a list of random sites we totally made up and will tell people you visited". How well does blackmail like this even work? Even if somebody has every naughty site Trump has visited, where will you publish it and why are his supporters going to read it and believe you? Why will they not assume you made it all up?
- Daviey 10y agoAnd Trump would need to either ignore the claim made by the media, which could be seen as an admission of guilt... Deny the claim, and then be later impeached for dishonesty. Admit the claim, and then well, admit it. IF some of the content is serious enough, it could surely be a foundation of a congressional hearing or perhaps even impeachment process? How can he respond to the questions there? In any scenario... I can't see how he could "win" this? (Unless he is really innocent of anything questionable of course)
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