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> But recently appointed chief executive Ondrej Vlcek tells Forbes there’s no privacy scandal here. All that user information that it sells cannot be traced bac
by excalibur 7y ago
> But recently appointed chief executive Ondrej Vlcek tells Forbes there’s no privacy scandal here. All that user information that it sells cannot be traced back to individual users, he asserts.
Not that anyone here needs this pointed out, but there's zero chance of this being accurate.
- dwnvoted2hell 7y agoWell, it all depends on how many points of data over what kind of time. This really feels like a variant of the 2 Generals Problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoAgreed. For every effort to anonymize data (just remove their name!) there's ten companys dedicated to tracking down and characterizing every individual. The details are almost a fingerprint. Know enough (maybe 2 facts?) and you can start to re-identify that 'anonymized' data. Just knowing a rural route code, and the factoid that an embedded development board was purchased there, and you have identified Me. To really anonymize data, you cant publish any correlations between the stats. Which is most of the value of the stats.
- bilekas 7y agoYeah mapping the individual user has turned out to be rather trivial. There have been numerous articles documenting this.. But apperantly, we privacy conscious folk are just tinfoil hat folk