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There's no such thing as anonymized when it comes to data tracking. "Anonymized" tracking itself is gaslighting.

• nicbou 7y ago
  It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggles with. It's really hard to properly define what constitutes personal data.
  • tjoff 7y ago
    Personally Identifiable information is data that can be used to identify a person with reasonable effort (getting a warrant is not reasonable for instance). The same data can be both PII and not PII depending on the context. Not sure what the struggle is?
  • bostik 7y ago
    Disclosure: I'm writing this with my DPO hat on. The GDPR does specify what is personal data, but doesn't go out giving real-life interpretation examples. The categories given in the regulation are direct identifiers and indirect identifiers. The categories even include a good sampling of information types that belong in each. Direct allows to identify an individual or a very small group from a single datapoint. Indirect allows to identify larger groups. Or to put in terms most of us here understand.. Direct identifiers are personal information that would allow to send marketing junk to selected individuals. Indirect ones are those you would use to build marketing cohorts. So if it's data your marketing department would like to grab, you can bet it's personal information under GDPR.
  • coribuci 7y ago
    > It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. So "It's anonymized" but It's not anonymized. > In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggles with. It's really hard to properly define what constitutes personal data. GDPR is good. The problem is that GDPR is not enforced because it might upset Uncle Sam