Instead of a few strong signals about an individual customer that you get from internal data, you will get hundreds or thousands of weak signals that you must make sense of.

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Accounts can be hacked into if you have a weak password, so make sure your password is one which only you know.

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Make a deal with a weak player and it can come back to haunt you.

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