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Three unknown individuals removed bark around two 80-year-old maple trees in Mitchell, Ont., police said, causing $25,000 in damage and threatening the health of the trees.

Three unknown individuals removed bark around two 80-year-old maple trees in Mitchell, Ont., police said, causing $25,000 in damage and threatening the health of the trees.

Three unknown individuals removed bark around two 80-year-old maple trees in Mitchell, Ont., police said, causing $25,000 in damage and threatening the health of the trees.

Three unknown individuals removed bark around two 80-year-old maple trees in Mitchell, Ont., police said, causing $25,000 in damage and threatening the health of the trees.

Three unknown individuals removed bark around two 80-year-old maple trees in Mitchell, Ont., police said, causing $25,000 in damage and threatening the health of the trees.

Photo by Kevin Ku© from Pexels If they hope to adapt to the new regime, they will need to design and implement first-party data strategies that both meet their need for information, as well as building and nurturing lasting relationships with their customers. So what data do we have access to? In the wake of Google’s announcement that it would no longer be tracking or holding individual data, as well as Apple’s announcement that iOS 14 users would have to opt in to sharing the data with ...

While useful for ad targeting, there is no doubt that third party cookies are invasive, deny consent, and slow down the browsing experience. For many concerned about their privacy, the faster third party cookies are a thing of the past, the better. For this reason, and in response to a growing privacy-centric regulatory regime, Google’s Chrome will be the latest in a list of browsers looking to ditch third party cookies come 2022, taking their lead from Firefox and Safari which began blockin...

If Covid-19 was the villain of 2020, then digital was the hero. As in-store transactions plummeted, e-commerce rushed in to pick up the slack. Rapid digitalisation saw smaller companies suddenly able to compete directly with our large enterprises and the further democratisation of tech is set to boost this trend. What’s clear is that building the framework for agile responses is the best and only way to survive 2021. Andrew Smit, head of data solutions and Johan Walters, lead tech solution...