Comment by userbinator
2 days ago
but it can still share anonymous data about people’s driving with third parties
Most important part of this IMHO.
2 days ago
but it can still share anonymous data about people’s driving with third parties
Most important part of this IMHO.
Yeah and it’s simple to reidentify anonymous location traces. The simplest way is to buy cell phone location data from apps, which is generally intermittent, but even with just 5-6 location/time pairs, you’re going to be able to positively identify someone, with the small caveat that there will be some ambiguity with members of a household that share a car.
Is it anonymous aggregated data or just anonymized data? Anonymized data can easily be de-anonymized, as you stated.
Assuming the worst in these cases is always a good idea.
Even aggregated has been and can be de-anonymized
Yeah, super anonymized if only my car leaves from my house every day to go to work and comes back every night...
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