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Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by ls15 on Monday July 18, 2022 @04:42PM (#32143384)
> personal info is one way to keep child predators aware of the fact that their actions can be traced back to a real person.

And in case of a data leak, all the (anonymous) predators know which players are children and where they live.

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Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by daviddever23box on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:08PM (#32143744)
They can get that from census data. Thank you for playing.
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Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by ronsor on Monday July 18, 2022 @07:53PM (#32145687)
I think the parent comment was referring to the fact that the predators could find out where the children they're playing with live, not that they could find children in general. As far as I know, the census forms don't include a "Minecraft player" checkbox.
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