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> What I would see an issue with is if the tracking company were sending the IP address and cookie back to a central database to query "Does anyone _else_ know who this visitor is?" and then provide PII any company who uses the tracking service.

That appears to be exactly what's happening. The email mentions "access to our entire network of identified data ([...] we can identify any visitor [...] if that person has filled out a web form from any other website we are tracking)".



Well, then this is F'd up. I guess I didn't read the post carefully enough. :-/




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