https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/anonymous-data-might-not-be-...
Privacy is dead. Once they have ubiquitous cameras everywhere, and connect the databases, the AI can correlate everything you do, and infer who is meeting whom and for what etc.
Similarly online. You are going to get deanonymized unless you go to great lengths to change everything about what you do, including not doing anything in real time.
More info: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169?p=169
JK Rowling: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-comput...
And the mac daddy: https://news.bitcoin.com/a-look-at-stylometry-can-we-uncover...
But, if you want to anonymously browse the web and talk to people on HN then that’s still possible.
A state level actor can easily dox u
Sure, not fucking up for years, using the same identity, and communicating with people while being hunted ups the difficulty, but still doesn’t make it impossible.
> In 2006, the internet company AOL released a large amount of user search requests to the public. AOL did not identify users in the report, but personally identifiable information was present in many of the queries. This allowed some users to be identified by their search queries, prominently a woman named Thelma Arnold.