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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:56AM (#23526008)
Well, IMO the definition of the word "anonymous" still fits how personal information is handled in Briefing: "Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's name is unknown" [1] And this is true regarding the Briefing service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymity

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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by inanutshellus on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:46AM (#23526312)
Heh, well you cherry-picked there. It goes on to say ". The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable."

Regardless, it's Wikipedia, that definition ought to be fixed to say "identity" rather than "name".

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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by walterbell on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:03AM (#23526424)
For online transactions, "name" has been generalized to PII (Personally Identifiable Information) from which name can often be derived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data

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