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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by agloe_dreams on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:39AM (#36631580)
> Looking at the current developments in AI, I am concerned that AI models can easily de-anonymize and guess end point users when being fed with "telemetry data" of hundreds of thousands clients.

I can almost guarantee you that the US government has a tool where you can input a few posts from a person on an anonymous network and get back all of their public profiles elsewhere. Fingerprinting tools beat all forms of VPNs and the like. Our privacy and anonymity died like maybe two years ago, there is no stopping it.

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by JohnFen on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:07AM (#36632854)
That may be true, but it doesn't mean there's no value in protecting your privacy from others anyway. Personally, I'm much more worried about private entities collecting information about me than I am about the government doing so.
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