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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

De-identified data is an oxymoron. Basically any dataset that's in any way interesting is identifiable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

no it's not. If you reduce the information in the datapoints until none of them are unique, then it is very obviously impossible to uniquely identify someone from them. And when you have millions of users the data can definitely still be kept interesting

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