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Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

published on 2021-07-23 13:58:33 UTC by Bruce Schneier
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A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis:

The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual. A growing market of data brokers that collect and sell data from countless apps has made it so that anyone with a bit of cash and effort can figure out which phone in a so-called anonymized dataset belongs to a target, and abuse that information.

There is a whole industry devoted to re-identifying anonymized data. This was something that Snowden showed that the NSA could do. Now it’s available to everyone.

Article: Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest - published over 3 years ago.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/commercial-location-data-used-to-out-priest.html   
Published: 2021 07 23 13:58:33
Received: 2021 07 23 14:05:01
Feed: Schneier on Security
Source: Schneier on Security
Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security
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