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Letter: Leave no trace

Published 23 October 2013

From Erik Luc Decker

Further to the idea of a personal digital guardian such as openPDS for smartphones and computers (5 October, p 20), there should be a third choice besides allowing or not allowing third-party access to your data. I call this option “fake”: setting my location to a cave in Afghanistan or, better still, the US National Security Agency headquarters.
Tjele, Denmark

Issue no. 2940 published 26 October 2013

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