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Meanwhile, over at Blueksy.app a few days ago, the users were incensed about a 1M-post data set and hounded the creator in to withdrawing it. https://bsky.app/

• saithir 2y ago
  Because unlike the authors of this set - who went and stripped the posts out of usernames and permalinks to anonymize it - that set you mention just grabbed data out of the API as-is (at least based on its huggingface description that's left over). That's the difference.
  • spiffytech 2y ago
    Just a reminder that anonymization is much harder than merely removing metadata: Every time I hear "anonymous data", I think of that time AOL published anonymized search logs (for academic research). The anonymization was negligent, and an NYT reporter de-anonymized and tracked down one of the users with the local & personal info present in the search queries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release https://web.archive.org/web/20130404175032/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?_r=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20130404175032/http://www.nytime...