Tag Archives: Data Privacy
By GDPR. GDPR. GDPR. Anyone else still recovering from the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) inbox flood? If you’re based in North America, you’ve probably also wondered to yourself if you’re even affected by GDPR. (Spoiler: you are!) The GDPR’s Global Impact While centered on the European Union (EU), the GDPR has a global impact. Here’s … Continue reading What the EU’s GDPR Means for Marketers in North America
This post is part of our series: Find Out Fast If Your Business is GDPR Ready. Our goal is to help businesses make sense of privacy and data. AE is your Babel Fish for Legalese 🐠 In the age of social login, every company seems to ask for permission to access your personal information through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, … Continue reading GDPR Compliance: Context, Consent, and the Digital Handshake
This post is part of our series: Find Out Fast If Your Business is GDPR Ready. Our goal is to help businesses make sense of privacy and data. AE is your Babel Fish for Legalese 🐠 The flip side of the onerous GDPR regulations is the new opportunity they’ve created for brands to be leaders. Marketers who adapt … Continue reading GDPR Compliance: How Brands Can Become Leaders in the Age of Data Transparency
This post is part of our series: Find Out Fast If Your Business is GDPR Ready. Our goal is to help businesses make sense of privacy and data. AE is your Babel Fish for Legalese 🐠 What Explicit Consent Means Clearly, telling your customers what you’re going to do with their data makes good business sense. … Continue reading Explicit Consent and Deleting Your Customers, The GDPR Cornerstones
To fully understand what’s happening in the world of GDPR and customer data, you’ll want to have a grasp of what web beacons and cookies are and how they work. Here’s our quick breakdown. Web Beacons Web beacons are often referred to as pixels that get tracked. They are small transparent gifs that live on … Continue reading AE’s Quick Guide to Web Beacons and Cookies
My brother’s left Facebook. My dad is getting ready to leave the blue F. I feel pressure to leave it as well. Why? Because I know Facebook is making money off my data and I don’t feel like I get a lot of value from the platform. Plus I’m crazily annoyed by the “sponsored posts” … Continue reading The Dark Side and the Light Side of Data
Every two years, Jeff and I try to visit our Enterprise clients. For this reason, traveling has become a constant part of our lives as co-founders. To be honest, when I first started traveling for work, it felt rather glamorous. Now it’s just a fact of our business lives. (Jet lag is no laughing matter!) … Continue reading Data Security, Privacy, and Pints in England
Yesterday Facebook announced some big changes and new data policies. Following on from the Cambridge Analytica boondoggle, Facebook is rapidly shoring up all the ways Facebook and Instagram user data can be accessed. Some of these changes will affect your AE account. It wasn’t really a surprise that these changes came out; however, it did … Continue reading How Facebook and Instagram’s New Data Policy Changes Affect Your AE Account