In focus: Paying attention to customer privacy

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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg received significant public attention at the company’s f8 developers’ conference last week when he focused on the issue of users’ privacy. While the social media giant’s handling of privacy and user data was squarely in the spotlight last week, it’s far from the only company with cause for concern. FM magazine took a closer look at one aspect of the digital privacy issue — how collecting consumer information from children can cause finance departments costly problems — late last year. Click here to check out that article on the perils of collecting children’s data.

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