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Wanted: Digital advocates to protect personal data

Consumers need to band together to fight back against wholesale surrender of their personal data to tech companies

Companies gain access to our private lives through the data gathered by devices. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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During a recent WhatsApp chat with a colleague on shopping, I confessed to an ignorance about fashion and how I had once thought Burberry - the British fashion label - was a fruit.

Shortly after, an advertisement for the luxury brand popped up on my Instagram feed.

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