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by std_throwaway 3299 days ago
Not yet. The data is there to link it to you.
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And by what legal means would a private university access that data to connect it?
If you're not posting under your confirmed real name, in a facebook group under the control of the private university, there's probably nothing they can do.
What keeps them from doing it? Internet communication is not private. Everybody with access can record and sell it.
Reading a document dump from somewhere. Same way people accessed the Ashley Madison subscriber data.