article thumbnail

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

The Last Watchdog

“Second-party” data is essentially the first-party data of another organization. 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. E-commerce impacted.

eCommerce 113
article thumbnail

Can “Buy Now, Pay Later” Apps Be Trusted with My Personal Data?

Identity IQ

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently asked several buy now, pay later, or BNPL, providers for information related to some concerns it has about short-term installment plans. The CFPB also said it was exploring questions about “data harvesting” from “valuable payment histories.”