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There are plenty of creepy technologies that surreptitiously harvest consumer data and don’t ask for permission. But that’s not how third-party identity works.
By Patrick Salyer
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There are plenty of creepy technologies that surreptitiously harvest consumer data and don’t ask for permission. But that’s not how third-party identity works.