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Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinti...
How can you take my literal fingerprint and trace it back to me as a person? Or even my name? There are tons of people with my name. It's still PII.
You do it by matching it up to other records with my fingerprint or name.
srbby
on Sept 23, 2019
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I can't. Neither can SO.
TeMPOraL
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But some of the countless third parties perusing that data can.
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You do it by matching it up to other records with my fingerprint or name.