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by joeclark77 4306 days ago
But somebody who wants to burglarize your house, or worse, could figure out when you're likely not to be home.
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This supposes that burglars work by picking out a person, then waiting until they're not home to go rob their house. Instead, burglars search through a neighborhood to find houses where nobody is home, then break in and steal things. It's the other way around.

Regardless, if you're an average adult in the US, "weekdays between 9 and 5" is a fairly reasonable assumption of when you won't be home. No giant database needed.

I didn't want to expand on what I meant by "or worse", but let's imagine you have a teenage daughter...