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by 2squirrels 2180 days ago
It would be interesting if it were possible to create a tool of some sort that distorts your personal data and or floods irrelevant data along with it so it is not so easily collected. For example any time your location is provided it also sends 9 randomized locations, every time you click a google search 9 other random clicks occur on other pages etc, so instead of getting relevant data you are getting a dataset of largely irrelevant data with the goods buried within.
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Its quite challenging to anonymize location data. With your example one would simply observe these sets of 10 locations and then look for the most realistic route between them, fully deanonymizing the location.