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How long until this gets exploited for surveillance capitalism? Unfortunately I doubt much effort to defeat this form of fingerprinting will happen until it is
by Forbo 5y ago
How long until this gets exploited for surveillance capitalism? Unfortunately I doubt much effort to defeat this form of fingerprinting will happen until it is already being abused.
Edit: Upon reading the cited paper, the final sentence in the conclusion states that being able to track a target is "essentially a matter of luck", so that's somewhat relieving.
- gruez 5y ago>so that's somewhat relieving. well not really, all that means is that the surveillance company would need to augment the dataset with other features to get an accurate result. Also, I doubt they actually care about tracking you on a minute to minute basis. Knowing that you went to the pet store with 30% certainty, 4 times this year, is enough to pin you as a pet owner and send you pet-related ads. the same applies for an oppressive government. knowing that you went to a protest 5 times this month, with 30% certainly, is enough for you to get sent to a reeducation camp, or at least send some officers to surveil you and catch you in the act.
- pessimizer 5y agoAnd to track the other devices that your device was near most often.
- jnalley 5y agoI think at least one of the larger points being made is that compared to the title, it comes off as clickbait.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoYour credit card company knows all your purchases and your legal name, combined with what the ISP knows about your web browsing and google maps/cell provider with all your consistent location data, they have a very strong profile already not even including social media. This is small and irrelevant against way more advanced profiles they make with troves of your user data.