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December 8, 2016

OPC blog post: learn how identifiers on your phone can be used to track you

Canadians’ mobile devices are filled with applications that collect personal information, including identifiers that are engrained into different parts of the devices. But what exactly are these identifiers, and how are they used?

Find out by reading our latest Privacy Tech-Know blog: Uniquely You: The identifiers on our phones that are used to track us.

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