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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on the degrees of privacy tech companies assign to your digital footprints

The Last Watchdog

Marketers frequently purchase or share first-party data from another partner organization. Data collection red flags. All of this leads us to “third-party” data. Third-party data is generally implicitly collected, used and shared from an external party across sites.

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Survey Says…Cybersecurity Remains A Critical Challenge For Business

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In its Global Risk Report 2017 , the World Economic Forum found that “large-scale cyber-attacks or malware causing large economic damages” or “widspread loss of trust in the internet” remain the primary business risks in North America.