The idea that 24/7 minute-by-minute location data can somehow truly be "anonymized" is beyond ridiculous. It's easy for any organization (or even a single resea

The idea that 24/7 minute-by-minute location data can somehow truly be "anonymized" is beyond ridiculous. It's easy for any organization (or even a single researcher who has cash to spend) to deanonymize it by merging w any number of other datasets that are available for purchase. "Anonymizing" this kind of data is really just saying "for some of these users, it'll be somewhat expensive to unmask them. for others it will be trivial." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220926571_Anonymization_of_location_data_does_not_work_A_large-scale_measurement_study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220926571_Anonymiza...