XY Magazine To Destroy Subscriber Info
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The agreement highlights an important issue that sits below the surface of the digital economy. As companies close and buy and sell to one another, the fate of the valuable user data everyone holds becomes an issue. Most privacy policies are unclear about this issue or do allow for transfer of personal information to new owners. But as the tracking and ad targeting technologies online become more sophisticated, user profiles will be come denser and more valuable.At its peak, XY Magazine and its companion gay youth dating site may have had as many as one million subscribers.
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