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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

My tiktok account is also anonymous.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Undoubtedly, especially since I haven't taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

But as I said in a comment below, I'm more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

No it isn’t.

When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

Cool dude, you've identified that big corporations data farm.

Random bloke user with a vendetta still doesn't know who I am, and that's who I'm more worried about on the personal scale.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Cool dude. Well you said your account is anonymous, and it isn’t. Words mean things.

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