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Then researchers used that mobile tracking data to see who visited strip clubs the Friday after Thanksgiving. They contacted those people to see how much they w
by dumbfounder 8y ago
Then researchers used that mobile tracking data to see who visited strip clubs the Friday after Thanksgiving. They contacted those people to see how much they would pay for them not to tell their wives about it. You know, for science.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- dumbfounder 8y agoDon't call into question whether researchers should have access to this type of data? Or don't do so in a snarky way? Is it a requirement to not have fun on Hacker News, even when contributing to the discussion in a meaningful way?
- dang 8y agoThe snark is a problem, it wasn't clear what your point was, and your example contained plenty of secondary flamebait just waiting to blow up when another commenter supplied the match.
- dumbfounder 8y agoIn case you still don't get it for some reason, I am using a colorful, yet completely plausible, example to show WHY random people should not be given access to such data. I think it illustrates quite succinctly why access to such data should be tightly controlled. Instead, it is being handed out to random researchers.
- dang 8y agoI believe you that it's what you intended, but the way you did it breaks the site guidelines, so please don't comment that way on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- brlewis 8y agoThe current top comment on this story raises the privacy issue without snark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17199880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17199880
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