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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by luckylion on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:55AM (#20728682)
> None of that is at all "anonymized".

It sounds like many people now use anonymized whenever there's no obvious personal identifier (name, email, social security number etc) in the data. Never mind that a thorough profile doesn't need one to identify individuals.

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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by mirimir on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:17AM (#20728739)
Exactly.

IP addresses are PII under GDPR, for example. And it's well known that many HIPPA-level "anonymized" datasets have been deanonymized.

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