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These 'anonymity' technologies are laughably worthless - sure ZKP might provide mathematical proof that it's impossible to find out who the subject is, but embed a tracking cookie and fingerprinting script into both the porn site, and the online grocery - and there you go, you have irrefutable cryptographic evidence of how John Doe likes to spend his evenings.


As soon as fingerprinting becomes criminal offense, this will end quickly. Nobody big enough is going to risk that.


Isn't it basically illegal under the GDPR? You're not allowed to just collect data for the hell of it and need actual consent.


The GDPR is a fucking joke even on the best of days.

If other laws were like it, they would be like: You're not allowed to steal (unless you really need to), but if you do, take as little as you can (as determined by you), and you have to give it back as soon as you can (again, according to you), and if the person you stole from wants it back, you have to (unless you have a good reason not to)


The porn site and the grocery can already embed a tracking cookie and do fingerprinting to match their visitors.




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