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Re:Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveilla... by Cthulhu_ on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:08AM (#17575086)
A famous experiment was when Yahoo (I think) released a dump of anonymised search queries, however, they had a user identifier for each query so it was simple enough to combine the queries and find the person.
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Re:Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveilla... by ryandrake on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:20AM (#17575174)
It was AOL, but yea, they didn't really think their method of "anonymizing the data" through.
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