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

The Last Watchdog

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. A third-party system could use a combination of a remotely hosted tracker and third-party cookies for web or MAIDs (mobile ad identifiers).

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