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Re:Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites by throwaway284629 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:21PM (#22939959)
mouse movements will contain personally identifiable information if the user has any kind of writing to text system turned on. You definitely can't rule it out. (not a lawyer) I think what stripe is doing is illegal
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Re:Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites by three_seagrass on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:23PM (#22939977)
Writing-to-text tools are technographic data, not really personally identifiable information (PII), and not run in-browser.

When used with other technographic data it can be used to fingerprint a user, but without any PII, you don't know who that user is.

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Re:Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites by throwaway284629 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:47PM (#22949455)
if they write their SSN in the tool and it gets recorded in the mouse movements, how is that not PII?
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