'Anonymous' Users Can Be Pinpointed on Twitter with 96.7% Accuracy | Breitbart

The experiment was run on Twitter, but the researchers say that the same methods can be used to test privacy on other platforms.
“The methods described in this work can be applied to a vast class of platforms and systems that generate metadata with similar characteristics”, conclude the researchers.
This is bad news for Facebook, which has spent much of this year dealing with national scrutiny after repeated scandals involving the loss of sensitive user data to third parties.
The collection of metadata and its implications for individual privacy became a particularly high-profile issue under the Obama administration when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA routinely harvested mass amounts of metadata about Americans’ phone calls.
At the time, James Clapper, then director of the NSA and now a fierce critic of President Trump, lied to Congress about the existence of the spying program. (Clapper later claimed he forgot it existed.)