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Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
- zsgoldberg 8y agoHeadline seems click-baity? "It then models this anonymized data in simulations — creating a synthetic population that faithfully replicates a city’s real-world patterns but that “obscures the real-world travel habits of individual people,"
- huebomont 8y agoIf you trust the anonymization sure - many don't for good reason, and this is not opt-in.
- GenerationRous 8y agoHeadline isn't clickbait; your comment is deceptive. The article actually says this: "If Sidewalk Labs has access to people’s unique paths of movement prior to making its synthetic models, wouldn’t it be possible to figure out who they are, based on where they go to sleep or work?" People can read the article for themselves and see for themselves.
- coldacid 8y agoAll the more reason for me to avoid Quayside.
- drugme 8y agoGoogle must think we're very naive if we're to accept -- solely on the basis of blind faith, it would seem -- their promises that their anonymization algorithms are sufficiently robust to prevent the various kinds of abuses one can easily think of.
- mikejb 8y agoThe way I read the headline is "the location data of my cellphone may get sold". I don't think that's what's happening. I'm disappointed to see this style of reporting finding it's way to the Intercept. Maybe I remember it wrong, but when it started it didn't rely on clickbait titles.
- liberabaci 8y agoTossing aside any concern for privacy seems to be the American way. Amazon, Microshaft, Goolag, Crapple, and are all onboard with profiteering from your inability to protect yourself.
- ninedays 8y agoIf you think your location is not sold to whoever wants it, you're gonna have a bad time. People have to assume that everything they do online or while using some services, can be used for and against them.