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		ninalanyon 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ban the sale of precise geolocation In what sense can the latitude and longitude of my house be called anonymous data?

kube-system 43 days ago [–]

Ultimately, a map is anonymous data containing lat/lon of everyone's house

Alone, these points are not deanonymizing, it's when there's other data associated.

ninalanyon 36 days ago | [–]

When such data is sold I'm pretty sure it would be more than just list of coordinates.

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