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		obscurenow on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I asked an online tracking company for all of my d... I wonder what a company like this would do with this data set: gender: male, female, trans, etc... location: various around the globe age: various ages orientation: hetero, homo How would they pick the right age, gender and location for you? Do they just pick the latest they have? Do they assume federal sources are accurate? How do they deal with multiple values?

Enginerrrd on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

They're out to make money not be politically correct. So edge cases probably don't matter to them much, even if they occasionally manage to offend some people.

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