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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. It lets advertisers track users to deliver customized advertising, while protecting personal information. What it is.

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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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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. Zoho Analytics : This is a self-service BI tool to help drive decision making.

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Facebook to Roll Out 'Similar' EU Privacy Options to All Users

Hubspot

Facebook announced today that it will be sending all users a News Feed alert asking them to review their data and privacy options. The alert, says Facebook, is "similar" to the one received by users in the European Union (EU), as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force this Friday.

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Good morning: B2B is adopting D2C habits

Martech

They need quicker service to implement rapid transformation. What we’re reading: On the subject of privacy, marketers experienced a rewind last week when HBO was slapped with a class action lawsuit alleging that it was sharing the viewing histories of its HBO Max subscribers with Facebook.