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by nitrogen 3518 days ago
One problem is that several seemingly innocuous pieces of data can be combined to create a unique ID. See the Panopticlick for an example.
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Yeah, if someone e.g. gets my complete hw fingerprint, I'm identifiable. But it's no worse than I'm already uniquely id'd by visiting pretty much any website today. I don't like it, but I also don't see a point in being outraged when my music player does it but not when my favorite website does it.
You seem very willing to just dish your data over to everyone - can I install some software on your computer, too?
Well if you make a piece of useful software I'll install it (I'd rather install it myself).

I'm not very generous with my data at all - but I'd rather trust my firewall to protect my data, than a dialog that asks me if I'm OK with sharing it. That was my point.