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>No, anonymized post IDs are not, themselves, personal identifiers It's the set of users acting on a post that can be used to identify the poster.
by treis 5y ago
>No, anonymized post IDs are not, themselves, personal identifiers
It's the set of users acting on a post that can be used to identify the poster.
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- paulmd 5y agoYou can't tell the users that acted on a post from the mere UUID of the post itself. Knowing that this is HN thread 30427711 doesn't give you a set of users who acted on that. For example, a hyperlink to this thread, or posts within it, is not personal data. You'd have to go to the HN server and ask them for the data - which is personal data, but the post ID itself is not, it's just a handle. Assigning UUIDs randomly instead of sequentially strengthens this further because there is no way to pull out even a time component from the post ID.