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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:27PM (#27621887)
It is a stretch, but then "anonymized data collection that can't be used to ID anyone" is also not an accurate description of what the advertising industry does.
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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by olegious on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#27622154)
If you take an individual ID from a group of 100K IDs that represent a data segment, how do you back that out into PII?
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