LiveRamp Holdings Inc
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Information Technology
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LiveRamp Holdings (formerly Acxiom) is a pure-play data broker whose core business is compiling detailed identity profiles on hundreds of millions of individuals and selling them to advertisers, pharmaceutical companies, and other data brokers. The company aggregates personal data from online and offline sources into unique "RampID" profiles containing names, addresses, device identifiers, and browsing histories, then monetizes them through a Data Marketplace. A class-action lawsuit (Riganian v. LiveRamp) alleges that one plaintiff's data was disclosed to at least 62 third parties including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft without consent. In July 2025 a federal judge in the Northern District of California denied LiveRamp's motion to dismiss, allowing claims of privacy violations and wiretapping to proceed. The company rebranded from Acxiom in 2018 after its connection to Cambridge Analytica's voter targeting operation was exposed.
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