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by xmcp123 22 days ago
This sounds a lot like “you’re getting analyzed by AI/ML, tied to a specific bucket of similar users, then your continued data expands the bucket, splitting off into different adhoc buckets of similar users”

If so, you can’t be tied to a specific purchase but you can be so tightly grouped it’s basically the same.

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Look up differential privacy. Done right, it is impossible to do what you said.