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Privacy Protections Spur Companies to Collect Personal Info on Consumers, Build Profiles

PRSay

New privacy protections from tech giants and governments threaten to staunch the flow of user data that companies have long relied on to target consumers with online ads, The Wall Street Journal reports. Over the summer, Miller High Life ran an online contest for consumers to win a branded patio set with a bar, stools and neon signs.

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Blowing smoke

Stephen Waddington

A Bureau of Investigative Journalism report has criticised British American Tobacco (BAT) for targeting its products at young people, often in developing markets using emerging forms of media. BAT’s modern-day purpose is to reduce the health impact of the business by shifting cigarettes to less toxic nicotine consumer packaged goods (CPG).

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