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More than 90% of “anonymous users” can be identified easily

By Connor Livingston1 min readGoogle News

One of the ways that companies like Facebook and Google are able to make their users OK with the fact that the companies gather vast amounts of data on them is by assuring them that none of this information can be used to identify them. However, even without things like names and addresses, researchers have found that they can discover who this “anonymous data” belongs to about 90% of the time.

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