Imagine the legal liability if they found legitimately dangerous trends! They probably have simple ways to reference the IP address of where that data came from

Imagine the legal liability if they found legitimately dangerous trends! They probably have simple ways to reference the IP address of where that data came from; they probably have a user id correlated to each data record. Their policy is one of those 'technically the truth' statements that is gravely overshadowed by other events that have transpired.