The High Privacy Cost of a ‘Free’ Website

Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data

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OneZero
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16 min readSep 22, 2020

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By Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu

Kara Zajac said SPART*A, a small nonprofit serving transgender military service members and veterans, helped her…

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