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SunSeeker

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10. For sure.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 05:02 PM
Jul 2021

As also noted in the article:


Privacy experts have long raised concerns about “anonymized” data collected by apps and sold to or shared with aggregators and marketing companies. While the information is typically stripped of obviously identifying fields, like a user’s name or phone number, it can contain everything from age and gender to a device ID. It’s possible for experts to de-anonymize some of this data and connect it to real people.

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