[hahabrew]

when and where the info comes from is important. someone could, over time assemble a dynamic probability schedule of your physical location, this is not good if you are physically meek, extremely rich or integral to government or industry, AKA kidknapping or worse

[imgabe]

Unless you are in the 0.1% it is very unlikely that the effort required to do that and kidnap you is going to be worthwhile.

[hahabrew]

oh im sorry what i was suggesting is hard to do? how about pervs and thier motivations.

[imgabe]

It's not only hard, it's completely unnecessary. Most people are assaulted by someone they know in real life. You don't need gigabytes of data and a "dynamic probability schedule" to figure out that someone is at work during the day and at home in the evening, and they probably take one of 2 or 3 convenient routes to move between the two. If they actually know their target, they might even know something more like "they have a yoga class on Wednesday evening".

For a second, pretend you're one of these "pervs" you're worried about. Are you going to randomly pick a name out of a data dump from Marriott's database, and try to correlate that with other leaked data to figure out the likelihood of this person you've never seen standing on a particular corner at 5:37pm on November 3rd?

Or are you going to say "Sharon from accounting smells nice, I'm going to follow her home after work"?

I think the latter is something more reasonable to worry about.

[hahabrew]

cyber stalking is very real, very prevalent, and made even easier than it intrinsically is, by irresponsible PII use and meta analysis, stalkers did this in thier head, or spent time pouring over phonebooks and dumpster documents. just ask any women that care to be here about thier experiences and a different world will be known to you

[hahabrew]

...go ahead keep voting me down, im immortal