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But only because they can tie it to a user account. If DDG is the middleduck acting as an anonymizing layer, Apple won't be able to perform such analysis on the
by TheCraiggers 6y ago
But only because they can tie it to a user account. If DDG is the middleduck acting as an anonymizing layer, Apple won't be able to perform such analysis on the data.
This is all conjecture obviously, it's hard to know exactly how much data Apple is getting, and if they could use something else to fingerprint users, but I'll give DDG the benefit of doubt for now.
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- herbstein 6y agoCorrelate navigation requests made through DDG with location data from people with less of a focus on privacy. From there you can use a social graph to narrow down who lives at a given location to a small set of people. It's a lot better than straight up telling a third party which account lives at/uses a certain location, but it's navigation is a very revealing activity no matter what.
- spiffytech 6y agoNavigation requests are very frequently home<->"place I went". Household-level driving/shopping patterns are incredibly valuable in their own right, but it's also easy for a dedicated company to tie your address to the personal identities of the residents (Apple's internal customer records, public records, private vendors whose whole business is selling this info), and then it's just profit all the way down. Hypothetically, DDG could guard against Apple having useful navigational histories for your home by seeding requests with misinformation -- artificial navigation requests Apple can't tell apart from your real requests -- but I'd be surprised if this hypothetical is actually happening.
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- sneak 6y agoOnly one person (or perhaps two) works at X and lives at Y. Location data can never be anonymous.