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		sugarfactory on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA sur... Why is it hard to track users when DuckDuckGo has access logs (tuples of date/times, ip addresses and queries) and ISPs have a pair of a date/time and an ip address -> a real identity mappings?

relicscattergun on June 17, 2015 | [–]

Well, according to tracker detection service Ghostery, an I.P. address is considered Pseudonymous information, unless you live in Europe, apparently.

yclept on June 17, 2015 | [–]

IP addresses are not people

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