So called "Anonymised Data" disgraces the Catholic church via Grindr

[Mr Gus]

More like sodomised data, under the origin of the piece.

From the Gruniard
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... the-pillar

US church official resigns after news outlet uses phone data to out him as Grindr user
Jeffrey Burill steps down after Catholic media outlet obtains cellphone data that revealed he was a user of gay dating app

"The Catholic media outlet the Pillar first detected Burill’s activities by obtaining device location data from a data vendor before hiring a consulting firm to analyze the records.

“According to commercially available records of app signal data obtained by The Pillar, a mobile device correlated to Burill emitted app data signals from the location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019, and 2020,” the Pillar reported. “Data app signals suggest he was at the same time engaged in serial and illicit sexual activity,” it added.

In addition, data obtained by the Pillar revealed that in June 2018, “the mobile device correlated to Burill emitted signals from Entourage, which bills itself as Las Vegas’s ‘gay bathhouse’”.

There currently are no federal laws that prohibit the purchase of “anonymized” data. Nevertheless, privacy experts have repeatedly raised concerns about such data collected by apps and then shared with advertising companies.

Even though obvious information such as name and phone numbers can be omitted, anonymized data can still include other crucial information such as gender, age and device ID. As a result, some researchers maintain that anonymizing data is practically impossible.


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Let's be careful out there ..monsignors