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by Nextgrid 2315 days ago
One thing to watch out for with this reasoning is that there are a lot of data points which are innocent by themselves, but can produce a high-accuracy fingerprint when combined together. For example, browser, language, screen resolution, timezone, etc. By themselves none of these would identify anyone uniquely, but the combination might be enough to target a single user with very high accuracy.