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"Surrendering our privacy to the government would be foolish enough. But what is more insidious is the Faustian bargain made w/the marketing industry, which turns every location ping into currency... in the marketplace of surveillance advertising." nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html#click=https://t.co/zek9Hm0dlg
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"The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans..."
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"It became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living mundane lives."
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"the data collected on Jan. 6 is a demonstration of the looming threat to our liberties posed by a surveillance economy that monetizes the movements of the righteous and the wicked alike." nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html#click=https://t.co/zek9Hm0dlg
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"I'm not safe if I'm being surveilled against my will." youtu.be/fCUTX1jurJ4
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"Our findings show the promise of anonymity is a farce." nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html#click=https://t.co/zek9Hm0dlg
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This is a really great straightforward illustration of how 2nd party data and data joins work and why any unique-per-user ID is inevitably de-anonymizing.