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Re:Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s b... by simple_phrases on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:50PM (#19039315)
Reminds me of the anonymized AOL search dump from back in the day[1]. Needless to say, the dump was a trove of personally identifiable information despite being "anonymized".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

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Re:Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s b... by eridius on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:42PM (#19039859)
My vague recollection is Apple would actually take the Siri request and route it to Bing for you, so Bing doesn't know your IP, and they would attach a unique identifier that they'd rotate every 15-or-so minutes, so that way Bing can correlate multiple requests done back-to-back but loses any correlation with requests outside that 15-minute window.
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