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Sort of but not really because it's 1/1000 times the chance that they shop at stores in the same geographic location. So yeah I might have a couple dopplegangers but they're likely spread around the US and can be filtered out relatively easily.

It only becomes a problem if I (1) have a doppleganger, that (2) likes to steal, and (3) lives in the same area as me. It'd still be a kafkaesque nightmare but probably a pretty rare one.



Additionally there's other identifiers that when coupled with the 1/350k, they can figure it out pretty quickly.




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