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In Denmark, users of the non-personalised travelcard (called the "anonymous" #rejsekort) were identified in a fraud case by matching timestamps for check-ins with CCTV footage.
Like sand through the hourglass, so are the data of our lives.
I picture that to be the case actually.
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