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by disgusting_guy 3098 days ago
That's an incredibly broad statement; we are talking about what movies people have watched on netflix. What possible non-anonymous dataset could you be cross referencing to de-anonymize it? Even if you could, who cares?
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I just responded to my parent comment's premise:

> what is harmful about using anonymised data this way?

Whether it's harmful to use such data when it's not anonymous is a different discussion.