From social media platforms to email providers, tons of places on the web want to scoop up your private data.
Until recently, there had been very little you could do to block your MAID in marketing campaigns. But for criminals, if they can match the ID with a person, they stand to profit greatly.Typically, there would be no way for companies or advertising agencies to know who the MAID belongs to.But your behavior is tracked and assigned a unique Mobile Advertising ID identifier.But Vice’s Motherboard discovered that one company offers the linking of MAIDs to their respective PII.
Motherboard posed as a potential data client and was told by the company in question that they have “one of the largest repositories of current, fresh MAIDSPII in the USA.”Apple somewhat stopped MAID by allowing iOS users to choose who can target them.
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