marketing & privacy

Marketers must strike the right balance between getting close to customers and respecting their privacy. At a time of increasing regulation and customer pushback on data policies, the stakes have never been higher. Explore our insights and best practices on marketing & privacy.

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Glassdoor’s Mishandling Of Customer Data Has Users Heading For The Exits

Stephanie Liu 3 days ago
The platforms' covert addition of users’ real names, jobs, and job titles to their previously anonymous profiles has sparked backlash and distrust.
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US Govt. Makes More Data Privacy Moves: What Marketers Need To Know

Stephanie Liu March 8, 2024
With two moves, the federal government bucked its reputation for moving at a glacial pace this week. First, the Federal Trade Commission dropped a blog post stating that “Browsing and location data are sensitive. Full stop.” Second, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce moved forward with two bills in response to President […]

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Hear directly from the tech, CX, and B2B analysts behind our 2024 global predictions and get an important generative AI update from Forrester’s CEO, George Colony.

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California’s Privacy Law Puts Second-Party Data On Notice

Stephanie Liu February 23, 2024
The California attorney general’s office reached a settlement with DoorDash after the food delivery company sold customer data without proper notice or opt-out controls. It got slapped with a measly $375,000 fine (for context, DoorDash’s stock price is $120 and change), but don’t brush this off as a one-and-done. A closer look at the settlement […]
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Managing The Privacy Risks Of Generative AI

What It Means September 28, 2023
Nervous about the privacy implications of your latest generative AI pilots? In this episode, Principal Analyst Enza Iannopollo shares some insights and mistakes to avoid.
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How Will Generative AI Change B2B Marketing?

What It Means September 21, 2023
For all the FOMO that generative AI has inspired among B2B marketers, many aren’t sure where to start with it. Principal Analyst Lisa Gately shares her insights this week on What It Means.
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Welcome To The Data-Deprived Future Of Frontline B2B Marketing

John Arnold July 31, 2023
Data deprecation is well under way, and it’s interfering with frontline B2B marketing programs. Google plans to deprecate third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024, and it has plans to phase out third-party cookies completely beginning in Q3 2024. When To Start Being Concerned About B2B Data Deprecation Should you start being […]
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Making Reality Unreal: Five Deepfake Scams That Imperil Enterprises In 2023

Jeff Pollard June 27, 2023
While it might seem like generative AI is the only use case for AI around today, just a few years ago, deepfakes wore the mantle for attention and hype in the AI universe. That’s fallen off considerably today, but we will likely see a resurgence in interest based on attacks using deepfakes to scam and […]

60% Of Skeptics Will Use (And Love!) GenAI

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Build A Roadmap For Collecting The Customer Data That You’ll Actually Use

Stephanie Liu June 22, 2023
Marketers want to capture as much zero- and first-party data as possible, whether that’s email addresses, marketing opt-ins and other consent, or more granular data about who a customer is and what they’re interested in. But consumers have more power to be selective about who they share data with and when and have become wary […]
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Adtech Is Searching For Its Next Oasis

Mo Allibhai June 12, 2023
This year, programmatic advertisers face an unusual economic paradox: Ad spend continues to go up, but sellers of programmatic advertising and adtech vendors alike are consolidating and reorganizing in pursuit of efficiency. The stakes (and the same factors that drove real-time bidding adoption in the first place) are high: millions of hours of monetizable consumer […]
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Recapping The Global Privacy Summit: AI Is Everything Everywhere All At Once

Stephanie Liu April 7, 2023
This week, I attended the Global Privacy Summit, hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. This is my fourth time attending, and the shortest way to recap the event is: AI is so hot right now. It was the topic of the opening keynote, the closing keynote, and many sessions in between, including debates […]
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It’s 10 p.m. — Do You Know Where Your Data Is Going?

Stephanie Liu March 16, 2023
Last week, The Washington Post did a deep dive on how a publication used “commercially available” mobile data to out a Catholic priest as a Grindr user and visitor of a gay bar, ultimately forcing him to resign. Some of this data was sourced from Grindr; a Grindr spokesperson told the Post that “[the] company […]
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Data Privacy Day, B2C Marketing Edition

Stephanie Liu January 27, 2023
The privacy landscape is shifting quickly. It’s a critical time for B2C marketers to get involved in their organizations’ privacy programs.
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Meta Hit With €390 Million Fine And An Uncertain Advertising Future

Stephanie Liu January 4, 2023
Learn what the latest ruling against Facebook and Instagram means for marketers.
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A New Era Of Privacy Dawns With The Latest Google Fine

Enza Iannopollo November 16, 2022
In the wake of a lawsuit settlement over deceptive location-history user settings, companies need to look closely at their data privacy practices.
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US Consumer Privacy Attitudes In 2022

Stephanie Liu September 28, 2022
Collecting data without infringing on consumers’ privacy and ultimately sacrificing their loyalty and trust is a new marketing imperative. Marketers must avoid regulatory fines and reputational damages and lead the conversation on consumer privacy. Data deprecation, new privacy laws, and the cookiepocalypse are coming. You’re now past the time to revise your approach to data […]
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CCPA Penalties Are Here: Sephora Hit With $1.2 Million Fine

Stephanie Liu September 9, 2022
French retailer Sephora became the first company to be penalized under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for not disclosing to consumers that it sells their personal information, failing to respect users’ Global Privacy Control as an opt-out, and neglecting to correct these infractions by the deadline. The $1.2 million penalty is part of a […]
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DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection: Another Strike Against The Surveillance Economy

Jess Burn August 31, 2022
Fresh off a yearlong beta test, DuckDuckGo moved its email protection service into an open beta. The service works across iOS and Android; browser extensions for Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Brave; and DuckDuckGo for Mac. The service blocks trackers in emails, reducing the amount and type of data emails can send to third parties (like […]
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Meta Pixel Fiasco Underscores Why Marketing And Risk Must Work Together

Stephanie Liu August 5, 2022
Marketing and risk share a common goal: building customer trust. By partnering, marketers and S&R pros can use the growing momentum around consumer privacy to grow customer trust.
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Next On The Data Deprecation Docket: Location Data

Stephanie Liu August 1, 2022
As FTC scrutiny grows, location data could be next on the data deprecation chopping block. Here's what marketers need to know.
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Data Deprecation Déjà Vu: Google Delays The Cookiepocalypse (Again)

Emily Collins July 28, 2022
Regardless of when Google finally kills support for third-party cookies, if you’re not planning to manage these forces now, you’re already behind.
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