Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours agoThe problem I have with this is that “anonymized” data in the past has often been trivial to de-anonymize. And if they can remove some promises now, they’re going to keep going in that direction. Just like Microsoft telemetry used to be less but is getting worse and worse.
parmesan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Do you have any sources about anonymized data being easy to de-anonymize? I’ve been hearing a lot of conflicting stuff regarding the policy change so I wanna make sure the information I’m getting is accurate. But yeah if Firefox implements more anti consumer policies like this I will probably be jumping ship.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
There is a Wikipedia article about what I mean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
parmesan@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Thanks I’ll read up on it :)