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Just a link and one paragraph quote from the original story: https://www.wired.com/story/big-data-may-not-know-your-name-but-it-knows-everything-else/ https://w

• dang 5y ago
  Yes. I've moved (most) comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735187, which has the original source. Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• emj 5y ago
  That is the format of that blog, in this case it was a bit short I do agree. The problems with anonmizing creeps up quite a bit on Flowingdata https://flowingdata.com/2014/06/23/lessons-from-improperly-anonymized-taxi-logs/ https://flowingdata.com/2014/06/23/lessons-from-improperly-a... https://flowingdata.com/2010/08/03/what-online-marketers-know-about-you/ https://flowingdata.com/2010/08/03/what-online-marketers-kno... It's also mention regularly in posts not specifically about that.