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A comment on Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature. Parent comment

Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by ThePhysicist on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:38PM (#25469640)
Yes, even then. If that wasn't the case it would be trivial to circumvent the GDPR, as then basically any pseudonymous data would be considered non-personal. A Google Analytics user ID is also random and can be changed at any time, still the data that Google collects is considered personal.
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by fingerlocks on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:11PM (#25471328)
We aren’t discussing the collection of user data here. The IDFA ad system does not require anything more to function as described.

While in practice some user data is used to make a hash to increase the conversion accuracy, it’s by no means necessary.

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