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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Alternatively they could just check people's Facebook pages, where most users seem happy to publish all sorts of information about themselves.
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Yes, and lots of them already have had cause to regret it. At least Facebook, dumb as it is, is opt-in so if people want to bare their lives it's their choice. Trackable device ID's aren't opt-in and, in the case in question, are a specific end run around declared privacy goals.