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Phone number is definitely PII and can easily be used to de-identify. Mac address is better, but still not great. A Google or dump specific id would be best
by mind-blight 7y ago
Phone number is definitely PII and can easily be used to de-identify. Mac address is better, but still not great. A Google or dump specific id would be best
- AlexCoventry 7y agoI read in an earlier NYT article about geo-fencing that the initial response involves unidentifiable tags.
- 867-5309 7y agoI'm not sure if MAC addresses are used in cell network negotiation, and they are easily spoofed, but the cellular network provider could certainly link an IP address to a device id. then again, most criminal "burner" phones are not internet enabled anyway
- burpsnard 7y agoIMSI, IMEI, MSISDN, etc. Systems to associate 'burner' phones to individuals, with patterns of metadata, have been commonplace for decades https://github.com/kimgr/asn1ate/blob/master/testdata/public/huawei-cdr.asn https://github.com/kimgr/asn1ate/blob/master/testdata/public...
- 867-5309 7y agoyes those can be used as device ids and in network negotiation. harder to spoof as they're a lower abstraction layer than MAC addresses