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For example, on November 7, John went to Yogurtland to get frozen yogurt with his girlfriend; he made a post on Twitter, added a ‘froyo’ emoji, and tagged his location. On November 9, he went to Foot Locker and bought a pair of Chuck Taylor All-Stars; he was so excited about his new shoes that he wore them out of the store, and posted a geo-tagged photo to Instagram. With just these two data points — fixing John to two moments in space and time, the yogurt shop (11/7) and the shoe store (11/9) — the analysts are able to ‘narrow down’ the dataset: they find that there is one and only one person in the entire set who went to these two places on these two days. Once John is ‘de-anonymized,’ the analysts have in their hands a detailed profile of his entire spending history.

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