ePrivacy and regulatory updates Enforcement Spotify received a 5m EUR fine for an insufficient Privacy Notice (which is directly connected with the GDPR’s transparency principle). According to the Swedish DPA, Spotify’s Privacy Policy “does not inform clearly enough about how…
Readings “How Website Tracking Technologies Are Transforming Risk Analysis Across Industries” by Lauren Winchester (Info Security Magazine). Here’s a different perspective of the challenge posed by certain “tracking” pixels in healthcare or highly-regulated industries. Whereas #GDPR-related cases have grabbed the…
[Updated on March 16th 2023] (An audio version of this Newsroom, peppered with random thoughts about some of the topics covered in it, is available on Masters of Privacy.) Readings Two recommendations: ePrivacy and regulatory updates This was a pretty…
Please find below our quarterly update on five specific topics: (also available in audio format – on Masters of Privacy) ePrivacy and regulatory framework EU-US data transfers: A new beginning The European Union and the United States announced a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy…
Here’s a quick review of this season’s news in MarTech/AdTech, ePrivacy, Zero-Party Data, and Competition. All four topics shape the market we work on (and hope to redefine). Editorial A couple of recommended readings to get us started: MarTech &…
Unlike others before it, the trend was obvious from afar. We then found ourselves riding it comfortably. Most of us started with intellectual property. Licensed copies of music records, movies, or games became entertainment services. Then came physical, consumable goods.…
We recently realized that, after a couple of years talking about Zero-Party data, we had not yet paused for a minute to try and define it in a clear, simple way. Forrester Research provided a good starting point: “Zero-party data is…
For all the consensus we have managed to build on the need for people to take control over their personal information, entrepreneurs around the world are still struggling to find a working business model that effectively replaces current “dirty data”…
I do not believe that privacy can be dealt with in isolation from the new realities of data as a whole, and the manner in which digitization blends personal information into the myriad of interactions it happens to be a…
We are at a crossroads: In other words, it seems like the more we stick to the perception that we “own our data” and that “we should claim our fair share of the money others make with it”, the less…