We should re-instate that old USENET warning
From the everything-you-say-can-and-will-be-used-against-you department:
- Computer scientists will almost always be able to de-anonymize “anonymous” data, in this case thanks to movie ratings,
- Google offers users another way to store personal data,
- and all of this is old news
I’ve been doing this for years, and my solution is pretty simple: no regrets.
As an aside, these days when you punch in “privacy concern” into Googlepedia, you get the Wikipedia entry for Facebook. I was kind of expecting the entry for “US Government,” but whatever.
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