Comment Comment by tpolzer One of the oldest (AFAIK) occurrences of this was AOL releasing a data set of "anonymized" search queries in 2006 and it took a about a day for the first person to be deanonymized.https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.htmlhttps://techcrunch.com/2006/08/09/first-person-identified-fr... parent tpolzer 2 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html
https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/09/first-person-identified-fr...