among publishers (some may also provide ad tech services), advertisers, brands, agencies, ad tech providers, and companies that serve other roles (e.g. law firms, consultants)
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Technologies used to de-identify consumer data in the U.S. 2025
During a 2025 survey carried out among organizations that collected consumer data in the United States, ** percent stated that they did not use and were not planning to use any data de-identifying technologies. Among those, who did or were planning to do so, differential privacy was the most commonly named technology. Data de-identification can be defined as stripping a dataset of information that can be used to determine the someone's identity.
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