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hellojesusyesterday at 3:28 PM1 replyview on HN

It kind of does. Depending on how the mechanism works, if I check the user's age every time my executable is launched, and my user launches daily, I can determine with certainty what the user's birthday is. That information may be enough to deanonyimize in rural regions. It certainly gives away pii.


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gzreadyesterday at 5:19 PM

One allowed way to implement it is that your mom has to log in as root and unrestrict your account, and the user's age is only set to one of 4 different brackets so you'd better be watching the user every day for several years. Also if you are root you can just lie.