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Could someone in the ads world give an estimate of how this would work? What volume of data would need to be purchased, how one individual person could be de-anonymized from that volume of data, how much it would cost to do, etc.

I've always been terrified to think about how much of my data is out there, but I don't understand enough about how it can be used, and the potential risks.