By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026But "de-identification" is a pipe-dream, widely understood by security experts as a form of wishful thinking by companies that want to exploit your personal information while still insisting that they aren't violating your privacy. 63/ 1336
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026In reality, "de-identified" data is always vulnerable to "re-identification" attacks: pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/d... 64/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 30 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1222
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026The collapse of privacy and labor rights in post-Reagan America and the expansion of copyright over the same period are part of the same phenomenon, aspects of two generations' worth of policies designed to benefit capital at the expense of workers, and corporations at the expense of consumers. 65/ 1238
