Ban the sale of precise geolocation
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Ban the sale of precise geolocation
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Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#2Don't you want random companies to store your precise location for 12 years? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#3IMO we should ban gathering this data without a warrant or specific contractual agreement between the device owner and entity aggregating the data. As much as congress loves to claim the interstate commerce theory of everything, this seems like a slam dunk.
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#4Don't you want random companies to store your precise location for 12 years? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541
Screenshot in that tweet says 13 months FYI
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#5More details are available here, including screenshots of the tool.
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based...
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#6Just ban the sale of any kind of adtracking. That way we can get rid of the cookiewalls too.
Missed opportunity by the EU when they wrote GDPR.
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#7Don't you want random companies to store your precise location for 12 years? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541
Screenshot in that tweet says 13 months FYI
> Lifespan: 13 Months
> ...
> Standard retention (4320 Days)
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#8IMO we should ban gathering this data without a warrant or specific contractual agreement between the device owner and entity aggregating the data. As much as congress loves to claim the interstate commerce theory of everything, this seems like a slam dunk.
Contractual agreement? Nobody reads things like EULAs or terms of service. It's probably in there already.
Re: Ban the sale of precise geolocation
#9A lot of geolocation data on the market is anonymized, following medium-lived unique IDs that aren't able to be mapped to other identifiers. The problem with that is that if you have precise locations, or enough samples that you can apply statistics to find precise locations, in many cases you can de-anonymize the IDs. You can purchase address and resident listings from a number of different data vendors, and by checking where the device returns to at night you can figure its home address. Then if you find information on the residents (work locations, schools, etc.), you see if said device goes where each resident of the home address is likely to go, and you now have a pretty good idea of exactly who the device belongs to.