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		noja on Oct 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to T... People are being tracked for trading advantage and that is not at all illegal?

pas on Oct 27, 2015 [–]

Aggregate data. So it's supposedly anonymized.

anon1mous on Oct 28, 2015 | [–]

As in "We tasked one of our interns, the one with a Russian literature degree, to anonymize the DB ... two hours before we let the clients access it".

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