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Sad, but true! Online trackers can help themselves to your form data before you even have a consent option

No need to wait to see if you’ll consent or not, many companies, including Meta, TikTok and this Top Ten list of offenders, are pleased to snag email addresses and personal identifiers while you’re filling out forms. This KU Leuven and Radboud University study of the top 100K websites found 1,844 websites visited from the EU, and 2,950 visited from the US had email addresses exfiltrated.

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Global survey reports cybersecurity spend up 51% in a year, but CISOs & CEOs fear companies unprepared to face growing risks

May 17, 2022

Thoughtlab’s benchmark study of 1,200 diverse large organizations in 16 countries found that while more than $125.2 billion annually has been spent to shore up this area, the rapidly evolving threat landscape has many companies at significant risk. Weak links are: complexity of supply chain (44%), rapid digital innovation (41%), and inadequate budget plus lack of executive support (28% each).

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CDP Industry is Growing Again: CDP Institute

July 10, 2025

With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).

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