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2026-07-30 05:23
Anonymous survey design starts with a data inventory, not a checkbox
“Anonymous” is often implemented as a missing name field.
That is a start, but it is not a design method. A survey can omit a name and still connect an answer to an account, invitation token, IP address, cookie, device identifier, tiny team, or revealing free-text detail.
The useful engineering question is:
Which identity paths does this task actually need, and what happens if we remove each o...