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"Data brokers co-opetition"
In today’s highly digitized economy, if data are considered the fuel of the digital economy, ‘data brokers’ (DBs) are its catalyst. These often unknown actors are companies whose primary business is collecting personal information about consumers from a variety of sources and aggregating, analysing,