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This data must not show up in geofenced warrants though, the topic of this thread? Otherwise, it clearly isn't anonymized (or it isn't useful to law enforcement

• titzer 5y ago
  High accuracy location data is not difficult to de-anonymize. Your phone sleeps at your house and goes to work with you, two enormous windows of time that generate huge numbers of 4d points that identify you uniquely. It doesn't even need crazy AI/machine learning. > This data must not show up in geofenced warrants though Who knows...the public does not know exactly what Google is required to do to comply with these requests, nor how it implements these "queries". And then there are NSLs, which is a whole other level of batshit-insane secrecy, where Google can't even confirm or deny they've even received a NSL. They only voluntarily offer the number of NSLs they receive annually, not on how many they comply with. Technical details are important. The public cannot reason about this issue when the players intentionally perpetuate our ignorance. This is by design, and that itself is a gross violation of our human rights. Instead, all we have is vague assurances of powerful institutions who do not have our best interest at heart.
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