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A sufficiently large convenient aggregation of otherwise not-easily-obtainable public data becomes a privacy hazard. (I choose the word "hazard" with care.) Knowing that theoretically one could go find all fans of $PERSON_OF_INTEREST with enough work is one thing, being able to type one query into your data set and get the answer back in two seconds is another.


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