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Re:Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they... by JohnFen on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:21PM (#21575487)
> assuming it is anonymized.

In the age of Big Data, there's only one way for data to be anonymized -- it needs to be aggregated with all the other data, and the original individual data records need to be deleted.

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Re:Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they... by munk-a on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:38PM (#21575705)
And sadly that's never going to happen because those individual data records are valuable.
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