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I worry that widespread camera tracking is an effective route to determining identities of otherwise anonymous online accounts. If you can work out times when p
by ganonm 7y ago
I worry that widespread camera tracking is an effective route to determining identities of otherwise anonymous online accounts. If you can work out times when people are unlikely to be posting content online (e.g. because they are seen carrying bags of shopping) you can gradually, through process of elimination, work out who is the real identity behind some online account, or at least some probability. For example, if I make some number of posts on hacker news, every person who has an 'alibi' at the time of a post cannot be a candidate for the true identity of the account.
- bonoboTP 7y agoI guess you could set up timers that post with some delay to confuse such systems.
- oh_sigh 7y agoIf the state is going to those lengths, you would need to make sure your automated posting before/during/after web activity is similar to real activity. So you can't just POST a request at a certain time.
- shoeboxam 7y agoIt would be possible to write a learned program to simulate browsing habits. It is ironic, in a way, that you would need to track yourself, to avoid tracking.
- lallysingh 7y agoOr just monitor their network links.
- netsharc 7y agoI don't think they do anonymous accounts there (AFAIK). Social media needs to be connected with real ID, in any case the most popular, WeChat is connected to your phone number, and people link it to their CCs to pay for everything (I saw a lady selling baked potatoes from a pull-cart, the cart had a QR code which buyers can scan on WeChat to pay her)