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Privacy-Protecting Systems Are The New Green

Customer Experience Matrix

You could also add add products whose purpose is privacy, like ad blockers or proxy servers; the gazillion contenders in the pay-people-to-watch ads industry; privacy-enhancing extensions to standard products such as Google Chrome and Firefox; and, perhaps most prominent, the privacy-centered positioning of Apple.

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Apple privacy protections expected to cost big tech firms $16 billion in coming year

Martech

Apple’s privacy-protecting Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is expected to cost tech companies $16 billion in the coming year, an increase of 9%, according to a report by data solutions provider Lotame. However, a separate academic study has found companies already have ways around it. One company that IFDA is helping?

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EU’s ruling against Facebook a big blow to first-party data usage

Martech

Facebook and other tech giants will be hard-pressed to monetize their first-party data in the European Union, following a ruling yesterday by the EU’s top court that shot down Facebook’s “legitimate interest” argument for personalized ads. Dig deeper: EU fines Facebook $1.3 Dig deeper: EU fines Facebook $1.3

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California’s New Privacy Agency: Is Your Company Ready?

Zoominfo

California has been setting the pace on consumer privacy protections for nearly two decades, passing laws that regulate how businesses like Amazon, Google and Facebook can collect, store and use consumer data. “That’s the foundation of all new and emerging privacy laws.” It’s hard to say. We get that.

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Facebook isn’t fazed: Thursday’s Daily Brief

Martech

Good morning, Marketers, and Facebook is not yet fazed. Facebook and its absolute ruler Mark Zuckerberg seem not to be fazed. Perhaps Facebook and Zuckerberg would be fazed by a massive dump of secret documents that appears to show employees throughout the company furious at its lackadaisical approach to hate speech and disinformation?

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What’s the Best Alternative to Google Universal Analytics for SMBs?

Webbiquity

Yet surprisingly, although GA4 is much more privacy-focused than UGA, it still isn’t fully GDPR-compliant , at least not without several manual tweaks. All of the alternatives below have stronger privacy protections built in. For companies without complex analytics needs, this definitely worth a look.

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How Zuckerberg Has Undermined Trust In The Facebook Brand

Biznology

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg showed the world how a steady stream of blunders and insensitivity to consumers’ concerns over privacy and fake news has tragically damaged trust in the Facebook brand. The Facebook founder and CEO essentially traded a core value, privacy, for profits.