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There is no such thing as anonymized location data when you have the location of something where and when they sleep and work. It's a rhetorical fiction the ad
by rockskon 6mo ago
There is no such thing as anonymized location data when you have the location of something where and when they sleep and work.
It's a rhetorical fiction the ad industry tells itself.
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- Forgeties79 6mo agoAnd with LLM’s now it’s easier than ever to piece the parts together. Companies were doing it before we even knew what LLM’s were capable of. Edit: It's a rhetorical fiction the ad industry tells us.
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- Terr_ 6mo agoRight, there's probably no other phone in the world that typically stops for hours within 1000 feet of my bed and typically stops on Monday-Friday within 1000 feet of my work-desk.
- mapt 6mo agoNow think what Lavrenti Beria and an LLM could have done with that.
- wafflemaker 6mo agoSomebody once said that if Stalin had access to television, he would never have to kill 20+ million ppl. What would he do with all that data? No idea.
- breppp 6mo agoPretty sure it would be hard to enslave these people through television
- hightrix 6mo agoWould it be? I'd argue the current US administration is entirely propped up by television. Hell, the president seems to "rule" based on what Fox News said last night.
- lithocarpus 6mo agoA slightly different and no more charitable perspective is that the people pulling the president's strings are the same people pulling Fox News's strings.
- breppp 6mo agoNever saw the current US administration shipping people to labor camps with a single winter life expectancy
- nlitened 6mo agoEver seen entire countries of people locked up in their homes within a week — for months?
- tdeck 6mo agoWhat is the life expectancy in CECOT?
- breppp 6mo agoLet's see, during Stalin's Rule 18 million people went through forced labor camps and roughly 10% died, around 1.8 million Let's add around 5 million for man made famine, and probably a 2 million for arbitrary executions and deportations, while many estimate the full death count as between 15-20 million As far I can understand the top range of estimates for CECOT, which is a non American facility, are that 500 died, of around imprisoned 20,000 inmates. So the scale is a bit... different I think the issue here is that contrary to popular belief, not every wrong thing is the same
- xigoi 6mo agoI’m pretty sure most phones have a higher location accuracy than 1000 feet.
- abustamam 6mo agoI think this begs the question of what anonymous data means. Sure my visit to HN is "anonymous" in that it doesn't say "abustamam visited this site" but piece together all the other visits that have my "anonymous ID" then eventually it paints a pretty nice picture of who I am.
- rockskon 6mo agoDoes it map to a single, identifiable person or something close enough that the distinction is meaningless? Then it's not anonymous. Simple as that.
- abustamam 6mo agoMy point is that even completely anonymous data that conforms to what you just said can easily become de-anonymized when contextualized to other "anonymous" data.
- rockskon 6mo agoA marketer's definition of anonymized is worthless. It's a fantasy they want everyone else to believe in. If it can be "de-anonymized" then it was never anonymous to begin with. "De-anonymized" is quite literally an oxymoron.
- thfuran 6mo agoDoes that mean that no non-post-quantum encryption was ever actually encryption because in 20 years someone will be able to decrypt things?
- abustamam 6mo ago> A marketer's definition of anonymized is worthless. It's a fantasy they want everyone else to believe in. I'm using your definition. > Does it map to a single, identifiable person or something close enough that the distinction is meaningless? Also > If it can be "de-anonymized" then it was never anonymous to begin with. Well sure, that's the point I was trying to make in my rhetorical question above. Individual pieces of data may be "anonymous" but put together with other anonymous data that can be traced to a single source and suddenly you can figure out quite easily who this person is. The data itself is still technically anonymous but it can be pieced together.