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Smart Data is the Key to Building Trust with Consumers

Data is the currency of today’s increasingly digital economy — the coin of the digital realm. Data reveals consumers’ needs and desires and makes it easier for brands to more quickly respond with the appropriate message, offer, or product. When data is currency, it seems to follow that firms should collect as much of it as… read more >

GDPR time

Data protection concerns are shaking up every industry. Are you ready to respond?

Barely a year from now – on May 25, 2018 – the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will institute a revolutionary new business environment for any company that does business in the European Union. As explained in our Executive FAQ, our webinar, and our blog posts, the GDPR requires significant and fundamental changes in… read more >

Customer Data: Asset or Liability?

Is Your Customer’s Personal Data an Asset or a Liability?

This month the House and Senate drove two more nails into the coffin containing what remains of personal data protection for citizens of the United States. Senate Joint Resolution 34 struck down rules stipulating an Internet Service Provider (ISP) must obtain opt-in permission to use and sell consumer’s private data including browsing history, health, and… read more >

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Does Amazon Go + GDPR = Amazon No-Go?

Yesterday, my colleague and commerce guru Jill Finger Gibson did a great job explaining Amazon Go, the retail behemoth’s experiment with what might be called “1-Step” grocery shopping: Walk into the store, grab what you want, and walk out. Amazon’s surveillance technologies (cameras, microphones, device identifiers, facial recognition, etc.) will (supposedly) take care of accurately… read more >

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Worried About the GDPR? Grab Our Executive FAQ

What was your company’s global gross revenue last year? Now calculate 4% of that total. The result is the amount you can be fined by European Union data protection authorities for non-compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), based on 2015 revenue. Some random examples of an approximate 4% fine on 2015 global… 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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