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this is a bad analogy. A house number is assigned by a government in some form and looking up who lives at a certain address is not trivial and will certainly r

this is a bad analogy. A house number is assigned by a government in some form and looking up who lives at a certain address is not trivial and will certainly raise eyebrows. Workarounds exist such as election records however those were created during a time when google-level privacy invasion was not as widespread. An SSID is created by a private individual for private use and its use as a tracking tool must be discouraged.

gruez 5y ago
>A house number is assigned by a government in some form Why is this relevant? SSNs are government assigned but they're private. >looking up who lives at a certain address is not trivial and will certainly raise eyebrows But we're not talking about address-to-person or ssid-to-person mappings here, we're talking about address-to-location or ssid-to-location mapping. >An SSID is created by a private individual for private use and its use as a tracking tool must be discouraged. What about other privately made identifying features? ie. "I'm in front of the ranch style house with blue walls and a tire swing out front".