But with data - sure this post is from a meatspace device registered in my name / but does not indicate I am the actual meatspace person using it.
But with data - sure this post is from a meatspace device registered in my name / but does not indicate I am the actual meatspace person using it.
> According to one landmark study, these three characteristics are enough to uniquely identify 87% of the U.S. population. A different study showed that 63% of the U.S. population can be uniquely identified from these three facts.
If you have a significant online presence, your gender or age might be revealed by the way other users address you on some website. If a website happens to collect gender or birthday, then the website might share/sell the info to data brokers.
If police manage to narrow down the location of a potentially incriminating online action to a household, then the police could physically show up with a warrant and ask about who was using which computer in the house at that time.
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymo...
https://restoreprivacy[.]com/rtb-data-leveraged-for-user-sur...