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Similar thing happened a while back when AOL released 'anonymized' search data - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

I dug through it just out of morbid curiosity and unfortunately stumbled upon a few searches indicating that a friend privately suffered a miscarriage. This was only possible because I recognized her as the only person that I knew at the intersection of a few other search terms that were correlated to the same 'anonymized' id.

GP is assuming a naive starting point when that is rarely the case.



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