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The event timestamps embedded in the UUID can be correlated with external event streams, or even with other events within the same dataset, to de-anonymize the context of the event associated with the UUID. This is a common class of de-anonymization attack. Anything that allows temporal correlations to be inferred potentially leaks quite a lot of info about the data underlying the unique ids.


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