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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by nerdponx on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:43AM (#37261639)
1. Search queries are not metadata.

2. Why is sharing metadata with unknown arbitrary 3rd parties OK? Not all metadata is or should be public.

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by Spooky23 on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:29PM (#37266634)
My point, poorly made, is that the statements made by companies sharing this data don’t mean what they appear to at first reading.

Even in the silly HN example, you can analyze referrer data and build profiles of people, without any cooperation on HNs part.

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