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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 1002885" data-attributes="member: 59283"><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0610105.pdf" target="_blank">Study</a> after <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3276.pdf" target="_blank">study</a> after <a href="http://crypto.stanford.edu/~pgolle/papers/commute.pdf" target="_blank">study</a> (after <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3" target="_blank">study </a>after <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/credit-card-metadata-study-easily-identifies-individuals/" target="_blank">study</a>) has proven it's incredibly easy to re-identify individuals from 'anonymous' data.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They didn't apologise at first, they tried to downplay the ordeal:</p><p></p><p>He doesn't get to define what a privacy scandal is, and his assertion that the sold data can't be re-identified is, as proven above, false.</p><p>Their <a href="https://blog.avast.com/a-message-from-avast" target="_blank">apology</a> only came over a month after the scandal had broken, and it's clear that they were only sorry they'd got caught, not for their practices, as their <a href="https://investors.avast.com/media/1283/avast-h12019-presentation.pdf" target="_blank">2019 half-year financial presentation</a> boasted about Jumpshot's expansion and revenue generation (they shut down Jumpshot at the beginning of 2020 for context).</p><p></p><p>So, yeah, not a fan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 1002885, member: 59283"] [URL='https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0610105.pdf']Study[/URL] after [URL='https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3276.pdf']study[/URL] after [URL='http://crypto.stanford.edu/~pgolle/papers/commute.pdf']study[/URL] (after [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3']study [/URL]after [URL='https://www.zdnet.com/article/credit-card-metadata-study-easily-identifies-individuals/']study[/URL]) has proven it's incredibly easy to re-identify individuals from 'anonymous' data. They didn't apologise at first, they tried to downplay the ordeal: He doesn't get to define what a privacy scandal is, and his assertion that the sold data can't be re-identified is, as proven above, false. Their [URL='https://blog.avast.com/a-message-from-avast']apology[/URL] only came over a month after the scandal had broken, and it's clear that they were only sorry they'd got caught, not for their practices, as their [URL='https://investors.avast.com/media/1283/avast-h12019-presentation.pdf']2019 half-year financial presentation[/URL] boasted about Jumpshot's expansion and revenue generation (they shut down Jumpshot at the beginning of 2020 for context). So, yeah, not a fan. [/QUOTE]
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