So setting aside the specific circumstances of this case, if this guy was unmasked by de-anonymizing data, this should send a shiver up the spines of politician

So setting aside the specific circumstances of this case, if this guy was unmasked by de-anonymizing data, this should send a shiver up the spines of politicians, journalists, or anyone else who might be targets of blackmail, smear campaigns, etc. With the millions of independent datapoints people are unknowingly emitting every day, I can only imagine this becoming easier and easier. Maybe this will finally be what it takes to rein in surveillance capitalism. If politicians are threatened, maybe they'll start to take it seriously.