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Who Has Your Data

Retail tech and how it’s affecting you

August 30, 2025May 10, 2023 by Jenny
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What you need to know about emerging trends in retail technology. 

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article explainer

Why companies can keep your data forever

August 30, 2025January 17, 2023 by Jarni
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In Australia, your rights to have a company erase your data are very limited.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article news

Op-ed: Smart TVs are watching what you watch – and selling your data to advertisers

August 30, 2025September 6, 2022 by Alexa | Ramon
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Interactive television and the privacy risk to consumers.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article news

Buy now, pay later providers move into the data business

August 30, 2025March 7, 2022 by Wendy
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How BNPL providers, like Afterpay, Humm, Klarna and Zip are using and sharing your personal data for profit.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article explainer

Browser fingerprinting and the death of cookies

August 30, 2025January 26, 2022 by Alex
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Third-party cookies may be on the way out, but a new tracking technology has already sprung up in their place.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data

What are loyalty schemes like Flybuys and Everyday Rewards doing with your data?

August 30, 2025December 20, 2021 by Ros
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How the data you hand over at the checkout can be shared and sold to businesses you’ve never dealt with.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data

How and why Windows 10 tracks your location data

August 30, 2025September 21, 2021 by Alex
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Just how much does Microsoft know about your movements?

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How and why Twitter tracks your location data

August 30, 2025September 20, 2021 by Alex
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Where you go and what you do are data points that sell to you.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article explainer

How and why Facebook tracks your location data

August 30, 2025May 13, 2021 by Alex
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Learn how Facebook tracks where you’ve been and how you can control it.

Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data

How and why Google tracks your location data

August 30, 2025February 16, 2021 by Alex
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Google tracks and saves your location data mostly for advertising, but there are other reasons, too.

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