'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by guest, Jul 13, 2018.

  1. guest

    guest Guest

    'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
    So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
    July 13, 2018
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rowsing-data-medical-records-identity-privacy
     
  2. reasonablePrivacy

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    I wouldn't be surprised if some big IT company deletes PII from from it's databases after i.e. account deletion, but soon after that upload that data to some outsourced or in-house team to re-identify people based on data.
     
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