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Re:Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data by uoaei on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:18PM (#38235590)
> So unless your city is named "success", it's going to be missing from the dataset.

https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Success

> There are 11 places in the world named Success!

Negligence of all possible corner cases is common in handcrafted, "well-intentioned" approaches such as this. I put well-intentioned in quotes because assuming you know all the issues and premature confidence in the solutions demonstrates a lack of intention to actually get it right. Hubris permeates the mindscape of move-fast-break-things types.

Sometimes the failures are more obvious such as those pointed out by sibling comments. Part of the EFF's general point is it's a complicated business with so many pitfalls that it's a shame we have to learn by trial and error when people's private data is on the line. There's a reason many large companies have entire departments exclusively focused on privacy in their data stores.

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