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

The Last Watchdog

Data explicitly provided by the user is considered “zero-party” data. In ecommerce, this commonly comes in the form of a registration, a review, or a purchase. Marketers frequently purchase or share first-party data from another partner organization. Data collection red flags. E-commerce impacted.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

A typical website or mobile web app consumer experience today gets cobbled together with software components supplied by dozens of different software contractors. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems.

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Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world

Security Affairs

During the special operation, Indonesian Cyber Police seized laptops, mobile phones of various brands, CPU units, IDs, BCA Token, ATM cards. The suspected operators of the GetBilling JavaScript-sniffer family are charged with the theft of electronic data, which carries up to a 10-year jail sentence in accordance with Indonesian criminal code.