Third-party JavaScript tags put security at risk

While businesses understand that third-party JavaScript tags collect information, only 13 percent are confident they understand what information they collect and only 26 percent are aware that tags can leak their private user data to other organizations. A new report from the Jscrambler platform for client-side protection, with research conducted by Dimensional Research, shows 97 percent of respondents say they know that third-party tags collect sensitive or private information regularly. In addition, 49 percent admit that in the previous 12 months, these tags collected data they were not supposed to, including site traffic, website form data, login, order, social media… [Continue Reading]