They were able to de-anonymize posters from collections with 10,000’s of users, tested with scrapings from Hacker News, LinkedIn, and Reddit. Not good from a privacy perspective.

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    8 days ago

    location: “social media”
    likes: “writing”
    desires: “to stop”

    Got your number, pal.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      8 days ago

      you honestly probably could get my number that way. It’s public on the internet together with more words from me (for work).

      I think it’s time to delete my lemmy…