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> that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective. I hate to get all Godwin's law on
by chalst 5y ago
> that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective.
I hate to get all Godwin's law on you, but you don't think, say, Jews in the 1930s might have had reason to worry about the business model of third-party analytics companies if they existed back then?
- olegious 5y agoIt is a stretch to connect anonymized data collection that can't be used to ID anyone to the Holocaust.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoIt is a stretch, but then "anonymized data collection that can't be used to ID anyone" is also not an accurate description of what the advertising industry does.
- olegious 5y agoIf you take an individual ID from a group of 100K IDs that represent a data segment, how do you back that out into PII?
- mixmastamyk 5y agoThey did exist, that's where the connection to IBM census machines comes in. The earlier census made targeting undesirables easy.