Fahad HAug 13, 20181 min readThe United States finally starts to talk about data privacy legislationBut what is the US doing about data privacy on its own turf? And what do marketers think about those efforts? The Department of Commerce...
Fahad HJul 18, 20182 min readFTC says it will take a ‘close look’ at EU antitrust fine against GoogleMark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock.com Following today’s record antitrust fine imposed on Google parent Alphabet in Europe, US Federal Trade...
Fahad HJul 13, 20185 min readThe spirit vs. the letter of the email law & the bits in betweenOver the last year, I’ve given a presentation where I debunk common email deliverability myths and ask the audience to chime in and tell...
Fahad HJul 12, 20181 min readFacebook receives $664,000 UK privacy fine, which could have been $1.9B under GDPRFacebook has received a £500,000 fine ($664,000) in the UK resulting from the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal. The fine was...
Fahad HJul 10, 20182 min readReport: Most consumers think companies aren’t doing enough to protect their datanew research released Tuesday by digital advertising platform Choozle. According to the report, a full 89 percent of consumers polled...
Fahad HJul 9, 20182 min readReport: Second big EU antitrust fine against Google coming next weekReports out today from the The Washington Post and Reuters say that the European Commission (EC) is readying a second multibillion-euro...
Fahad HJul 6, 20181 min readDespite marketers’ optimism about new privacy laws, massive data breaches continue to rock conWith the enactment of new data privacy laws comes the expectation that consumer privacy will be better maintained. But will the new rules...
Fahad HJul 3, 20182 min readReport: Feds widen scope of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal probetargeting millions of its users by data firm Cambridge Analytica, according to a report in The Washington Post. Five anonymous sources...
Fahad HJul 2, 20182 min readCalifornia lawmakers approve highly contested new data privacy rules, staving off a November ballot The California Consumer Privacy Act gives consumers an array of new rights, including the right to prevent businesses from selling or...
Fahad HJun 27, 20185 min readTwitter now removing 214% more spammy accounts YoY as it ramps up efforts against bad actorsEarlier this year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, along with three other executives who head up the company’s product and security teams,...
Fahad HJun 22, 20182 min readIn major privacy win, US Supreme Court says cops need warrant to access cell phone locationPolice will no longer be able to access cell phone location data without a warrant. That’s a ruling that the US Supreme Court handed down...
Fahad HJun 21, 20182 min readFacebook takes fight against fake news to more countries & ups machine learning efforts around Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company...
Fahad HJun 5, 20182 min readFacebook facing class action in Illinois, campaign finance suit in WashingtonFacebook’s legal struggles continue. As we discussed yesterday, the company faces (and disputes) new allegations that it previously...
Fahad HJun 5, 20182 min readTaking aim at Facebook & others: Apple says it is ‘shutting down’ tracking from LikApple further entrenched its strategic positioning as privacy protector against the ad tech ecosystem at WWDC, its annual developer...
Fahad HMay 30, 20181 min readCalifornia ballot measure could become ‘America’s GDPR’Call it privacy’s revenge. The California Consumer Privacy Act now appears likely to qualify for the ballot, with more than enough...
Fahad HMay 24, 20181 min readGoogle to join IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent FrameworkThe framework is designed in part to allow advertisers and publishers to share consent across the ad tech ecosystem. Consent from users...
Fahad HMay 23, 20181 min readThe story of data, Part 3: Who owns it?Seems like a no-brainer: People own their own personal data. Or do they? Once a person shares their data, ownership becomes much murkier....
Fahad HMay 21, 20182 min read60 Minutes segment: Google is a monopoly without questionIn last night’s widely anticipated “60 Minutes” segment on Google, the program asks, “How Did Google Get So Big?” The answer the...
Fahad HMay 17, 20183 min readQuestions remain about GDPR enforcement in the US as the compliance deadline inches closerIf you read these pages regularly, you know that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European law that governs the handling...
Fahad HMay 16, 20181 min readThe story of data, Part 2: Where are we now?Big Data has given way to Deep Data Once companies realized that the data that they collected for their own entities could provide value...
