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  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    That doesn’t address the other two bullet points.

    It’s like tracking an animal moving in tall grass. You don’t need to be able to see the animal directly to tell where it is.

    If I can’t disappear completely, there’s enough data points around me that a useful silhouette can be reconstructed from all the surrounding data.

    What’s the point?

    • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      The article addresses this. Data must be fresh to be valuable. Yes old data can be useful, but can it be sold? That’s the main vulnerability to surveillance capitalism that hiding exploits.