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Question to the HN crowd : Would having event data & PII-ish data decoupled be an acceptable compromise to privacy granted that you can wipe the PII stuff and the only data left is completely anonymous (just a UUID that leads to nothing in case of deletion)?

Is anonymity in the eye of the beholder?

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> Would having event data & PII-ish data decoupled be an acceptable compromise to privacy

That depends on how you define "event" and "PII" data. The normal industry and legal definitions of PII leave out huge swaths of actual PII, after all.

Personally, I'm not even at the point where I can consider what is or is not acceptable for companies like Facebook to keep. I'm still stuck at the point of stopping them from collecting data about me without my permission in the first place.

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