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If you request weather info for a large range of locations at once - the k-Anonymity that HAVE I BEEN PWNED uses - you could prevent this at the cost of increasing response size dramatically

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

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I don't think that would help much. If my phone tries to get weather data for the prefix "66" and then "a9" and later "8d" and you correlate the cities together, you can be pretty sure I was driving around the Bay Area if the first list contains "Cupertino", the second "San Jose", and the third "Palo Alto".

I was thinking less around prefix matching and more around requesting enough data to where an observer couldn't tell what I was really interested in. If I requested 100 distinct locations in every state - 5000 total - you would know I was interested in the United States, but you would have a hard time determining where specifically.

But if the list from California always contained cities in the Bay Area that would be a bit suspicious.

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