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How to Survive and Thrive Under the GDPR: An Essential Guide for Marketers

Despite its name, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not something that will be taken care of by the lawyers in the compliance department and the data security pros in IT. The GDPR – which takes effect May 25, 2018, and applies to every company that touches the personal data of people who live… read more >

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143 Days to GDPR Compliance: Marketing Calamity or Catalyst?

May 25, compliance date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is looming large for companies that capture, manage, or use the personal data of any individual residing in a country in the European Union. If your company is impacted, are your marketers fearing calamity — or are they seeing GDPR compliance as a catalyst… read more >

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Pushing the Creep Factor with Customer Data

In the rapidly expanding world of big data, there are still many unknown boundaries. Two weeks ago we unpacked new information on shifting regulations regarding personal data and privacy, global marketers must understand. Today I’d like to share some thoughts (and data) about pushing our luck with ‘the creep factor’ when it comes to the… read more >

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Podcast: Four Bad Reasons to Ignore The GDPR

On this episode of the Just Clarity podcast Tim Walters and Jake DiMare unpacks four bad reasons to ignore the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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The Meaning and Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation

An Executive FAQ on the General Data Protection Regulation The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will substantially impact any company that sells to EU residents, or “monitors” the behavior of EU residents. Compliance will require significant changes in how companies collect, store, process, share, and transfer personal data. Failure to comply carries very… read more >

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Will the GDPR Be the Californication of Data Governance?

Business practices around personal data have already resulted in helmification. Will they now lead to Californication? Let me explain. Helmification is the regulation of a practice by governmental authorities, usually after the practitioners have proven incapable or unwilling to take care of issues themselves. Example: Motorcycle helmet laws — and the EU’s General Data Protection… read more >

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Who Owns the Customer’s Experience? It’s Complicated

In a recent blog post, Doc Searls commented on an article about the ownership of customer experiences. Who Owns the Mobile Experience? is a report by Unlockd on mobile advertising in the U.K. To clarify the way toward an answer, the report adds, “mobile operators or advertisers?” The correct answer is neither. Nobody’s experience is “owned” by somebody… read more >

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Privacy and Piracy: Who Owns Personal Data?

You wouldn’t steal personal data, would you? Remember the anti-piracy ads that ran in movie theaters and on DVDs ten years ago? The message was, in part: You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a television. Downloading pirated films is stealing. Piracy. It’s a crime. In those relatively early… read more >

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Get Ready for the New Personal Data Economy

Over the last ten years of big data excitement and hype the economics of the internet and of digital business have followed Tim O’Reilly’s simple dictum: “The guy with the most data wins.” This maxim has driven the decisions of the internet platform giants, fueled the explosive growth of a massive ad-tech ecosystem, and shaped… read more >

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Progress on Privacy: Business Incentives and the GDPR

The Question Last year, a journalist asked me, “Why is respecting customer data privacy sound business policy?” My answer at the time: This is a matter of increasingly intense debate. Some claim that, in principle, more data means better services/improved customer experience. They argue that since consumers ultimately (or, what amounts to the same thing,… read more >

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