So even if you disable the location feature it still tracks your location? I'd be interested what they mean by 'broad location tracking' but I can't imagine that it's consistent with their anonymity claims. e.g. see http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01...
Re-identification is a very different risk than the one considered by the UC Santa Barbara researchers in Wang, Gang, et al. "Whispers in the Dark: Analysis of an Anonymous Social Network." (2014).
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So even if you disable the location feature it still tracks your location? I'd be interested what they mean by 'broad location tracking' but I can't imagine that it's consistent with their anonymity claims. e.g. see http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01...
I'm the author of this paper and I absolutely agree. If you keep identifiers, simply blurring the location isn't enough to address the risks of re-identification (https://twitter.com/yvesalexandre/status/524219573650722817).
Re-identification is a very different risk than the one considered by the UC Santa Barbara researchers in Wang, Gang, et al. "Whispers in the Dark: Analysis of an Anonymous Social Network." (2014).
Apparently they use IP address and geolocation in that case, not GPS.