I am working in the adtech industry and can say as a fact that all data is anonymous. Anonymity is very seriously enforced throughout the industry and, additionally, lack of such anonymity will be seen very quickly by huge amounts of engineers working with user databases.

Which is exactly why I am asking Will what exactly he is afraid of. The need to run off of LinkedIn, scrambling information about oneself, because Microsoft buys it, shows irrational hatred for Microsoft that is probably ideologically charged. And probably hints at all the free software alarmist propaganda about how "corporations are controlling you", which is in the vast majority of cases is simply misrepresentation of actual state of things.





On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:10 PM, jonetsu@teksavvy.com <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:32:55 +0200
Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com> wrote:

> What is wrong with "aggressive data mining"?

I can say that the same concern exists for V2X applications in
development.  There is a concern that the public will not want to have
them tracked and identified as they drive their cars.  So great effort
is made to design and eventually implement anonymous car communications
with land units.  By doing so it also makes it much more difficult for
hackers to simulate cars on the road, control cars, etc.




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