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There's a huge difference between Google Maps telling advertisers when you visit a store and Google Maps serving you advertisements based on where you go withou
by Symmetry 7y ago
There's a huge difference between Google Maps telling advertisers when you visit a store and Google Maps serving you advertisements based on where you go without telling the advertisers where you are. Google, the creature of code and databases certainly knows where you are at all times just like your cell phone provider does. But if any advertiser or human being at Google knew that it would be a huge breach of privacy.
- jhayward 7y agoThere is a very large industry focused on "re-associating" so-called anonymized information back to PII. Store visits are very easy to re-associate, and ad targeting can be used to de-anonymize people as well. It is virtually impossible to certify that any given disclosure, no matter how grouped, anonymized, fuzzed, etc. is incapable of being re-associated given other data and time. I also do not subscribe to the rather expedient definition that your privacy hasn't been violated as long as no human has seen the data. That's an unsupportable claim. As long as my privacy is only a millisecond away from anyone's view on whim, mistake, or trivial disclosure, or some automated system has made some decision that affects me based on my private data I have been violated.
- mav3rick 7y agoThis should make you not use any technology. Including Apple's. Delusional comments.