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Comment by yoaviram

3 years ago

Yes, all location tracking data is personaly identifiable.

Given any dataset like this it is trivial to pick any entry and trace where is home and where is work thus de-anonymizing it. Conversely given any home or work addreas it's trivial to find all other related entries for the individual.

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