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Terr_yesterday at 11:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Enough location data becomes effectively unique: There is likely only one phone in the world that averages over X nighttime hours in my apartment-complex and averages over Y workday-hours in the the same office block where I work.

That kind of pattern can be used to determine that two or more different app-identities are the same person, and anybody buying that data has a strong incentive to try it.


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pat2mantoday at 12:23 AM

Which I guess is what iCloud private relay solves. But only if you pay.

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