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It seems like the disagreement is between what makes data anonymous.

If I write a letter and don't sign it. It's anonymous. Someone could use a corpus of my text and infer I wrote it. That doesn't mean I didn't write anonymously.

I could make 2 updates to 2 tables and then end result would be that having both tables wouldn't let you correlated the data with submitters.

Yes if you control every aspect of the process you can lie to people. Thats not the point. If you think someone is lying to you to harm you why would you interact with them?



The point is there's ways to achieve this even assuming bad actors and doing something that's obviously flawed doesn't seem helpful.


> obviously




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