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Add "profile building" to the high-level threats #10

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@jyasskin jyasskin commented Jan 8, 2020

@jyasskin jyasskin force-pushed the profile-building branch 2 times, most recently from e89c9e1 to 65cdf95 Compare January 13, 2020 23:14
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npdoty commented Mar 9, 2020

I'm not clear on what the particular threat is here with profile building. Is this about information collection that isn't in the separate sensitive information category? Or about noting the cumulative (or "mosaic") privacy threat of collection and correlation -- where a single piece of data might not appear to have effect when collected, but when combined it could have more consequential impacts?

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jyasskin commented Mar 9, 2020

I like your description of it as the cumulative privacy threat of collection and correlation.

The cross-site part of this came from a discussion about the differences between https://github.com/csharrison/conversion-measurement-api and https://github.com/WICG/ad-click-attribution, where the first allows the publisher to learn something about a particular user's behavior on another site, but the privacy impact of that learning doesn't clearly fall under any of the other high-level threats.

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