Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tpoacher 517 days ago
Not everyone who indirectly cares about anonymity is an activist who feels they need to go to great lengths to disguise their identity. Sometimes anonymisation is part of a process, and the ability to collect potentially deanonymizing data this way is still a privacy breach.

E.g. imagine sending otherwise anonymised participants in a clinical trial a questionnaire, containing an image. The owner of the image could then partially deanonymize the trial participants. Or voters. Or demonstrators in a rally.

Not everyone who cares about privacy is Edward Snowden material.