Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value
Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don’t do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it
no it’s not. If you reduce the information in the datapoints until none of them are unique, then it is very obviously impossible to uniquely identify someone from them. And when you have millions of users the data can definitely still be kept interesting
(though there’s pretty big pitfalls here, as their report seems to leave open the possibility of not doing it correctly)