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		andrewtbham on July 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is there an open source license that requi... Ok, if that's the case people from the EU couldn't use the software. I'm not sure that it would be a problem especially if the service was anonymous. So for instance... free tools for making a search engine, but you have to publish all the searches. If the searches were anonymous, I'm not sure it would be a privacy concern.

tobylane on July 18, 2016 [–]

Facebook and many other major US tech companies comply with the EU standards for their own benefit as well as customer trust.

The searches themselves are de-anonymizing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

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