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Re:Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data by JohnFen on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:23PM (#38242748)
What part of what I said was incorrect?

Your source doesn't make the case that I was incorrect about any of my assertions. That doesn't mean I'm right, of course, but I don't see how examples of privacy controls successfully protecting data disproves them. There can still be cases where the controls failed.

Re:Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data by c0pium on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:55PM (#38243040)
> What part of what I said was incorrect?

All parts of it. You are asserting that a sufficiently skilled attacker can magically overcome all privacy controls. This fundamentally misunderstands how privacy controls work. Don’t make absolute statements, they’re always incorrect (see what I did there?).

When data is compliantly anonymized, the ability to deanonymize it has been irrevocably destroyed. When evaluating privacy controls, you evaluate them against a trusted insider with full access and unlimited time. There are lots of organizations whose controls meet this bar.