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Aren't food preferences a threat to your anonymity? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 days ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Like, for example, what if someone doesn't like cheese on their sandwich? Or loves pineapple on ther pizza? (its honestly good when combined with ham)

That plus your height and body shape and gender (as they can hear from your voice) is gonna narrow down the possibilities.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is pretty high level paranoia, but:

Ordering defaults is a thing ive seen extremely spooky people do. To the poibt it can get sprt of obsessive, pathological. I'm not sure how much it helps

Not every restaurant computerizes every detail of every order. It might go in as 'pizza, large, 2 topping' rather than 'large pizza with pineapple and ham'. Especially if you pay cash, which is more a flag in some areas than others.

There's levels of analysis. All this connection takes work. Going after people you need this level of invasive snooping to find weirds people out.

It either looks like a random abduction, which irks your community and bystanders abd fires up resistance, or they have to admit how creepy they're being-which does the same.

It's really not worth it when there's, unfortunately, so fucking much low hanging fruit.

Plus, not every agency is packing that level if creep, so they would have to share and coordinate, which they don't always love to do.