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Think about the Christmas shopping you’ve been doing online – have ads for those same items been following you around the internet? It’s not a coincidence: You’re being tracked! Not by a virus or ...

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Every time you open an email, someone may be watching, because hidden within it could lie a tracking pixel—one of the most potent marketing tools today. When you open an email, it quietly pings the ...

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Last month, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly launched Office of Technology published a blog post entitled “Lurking Beneath the Surface: Hidden Impacts of Pixel Tracking.” If you skim the post, you ...

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