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Your ISP sells your data, your mobile phone carrier sells your data and the apps on your phone sell your data. But it is anonymized so it is no big deal, right?
by etempleton 6y ago
Your ISP sells your data, your mobile phone carrier sells your data and the apps on your phone sell your data. But it is anonymized so it is no big deal, right? Well, it is not anonymized enough and they sell just enough data that unscrupulous middle ware advertising companies are buying that data and then identifying user information including home addresses.
I am copying and pasting another comment I made on another thread:
"Companies are now promoting data services to advertisers that allow a company to install a cookie on their website and, by just having a user complete a site visit, match an IP address to a physical mailing address with claimed 90% + accuracy. Don't believe me? Check out this company: https://www.eltoro.com/ https://www.eltoro.com/. One of many companies that have recently popped up offering just such a service."
This is achieved by layering user data from mobile applications and user data from ISPs and mobile carriers. Combined it is enough to do some scary stuff.
- foolmeonce 6y agoGiven that most services are unlimited, I would like more apps to maintain 10% randomized utilization.. ATT can try to find my data in the sh*t I use to bring down their network and scum bags in the desert can store my possibly encrypted 100mb/s streams indefinitely.
- pixl97 6y agoTrue random data is pretty easy to filer.... you'll never do it twice.
- foolmeonce 6y agoTrue random data is just as incompressible as cipher text so you can either save both or neither for later analysis. For searches one can derive walks and repeat them. In any case, the adversary needs to store more and more data to derive an unimproved analysis and the costs ruin their offerings.