PlaceIQ deliberately avoids collecting personally identifiable user information
Duncan McCall · The Power of Location & Mobile // Duncan McCall, PlaceIQ (FirstMark's Data Driven) · May 24, 2017 · at 21:17
Duncan McCall, founder and CEO of PlaceIQ, outlines his company's privacy architecture and data storage policies.
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“We made a conscious decision many years ago not to hold any PII, not to hold any personally identifiable information.”
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