Back in 2019, the Datum Future and GlobalWebindex released a study, The Data Confidence Index. This study is as relevant today as when it was released. According to Catherine Mayer of Datum Future, with …

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has an open call for submissions for their IAPP Privacy Tech Vendor Report. The deadline for submission for the next report is Friday, August 21, 2020. You …

Zeynep Tufekci, an information science professor, wrote a powerful and timely piece in the New York Times this week, Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again (Tufekci, 2019). She wrote about data inference, a topic …

A friend of mine called me the other day to share an unsettling experience she had, one that has been happening for quite some time to all of us, but until recently few of …

"While the U.S. administration is dialing-back on regulations that protect personal information, European regulators are ratcheting them up." Michael Becker “We’ve lost control of our personal data." Tim Berners-Lee. Remember Orwell’s book “1984”? It turns …

Almost half of consumers will share personal details and opt-in to receive relevant, targeted, personalized communication and information from companies they trust, as long as it is clear why it is in their benefit …

ompetitive advantage for businesses is now to be found in the use of data to understand customers. In this new data age, however, the individual is gaining a new power to demand a fairer …

A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users At the time it was a bit nerve-racking as nearly everyone around me got very aggressive after my …

This article is the second part to the November 2006 article “Mediating effects of Privacy & Preferences Management on Trust and Consumer Participation in SMS Based Mobile Marketing Initiatives: Part one of Two”).  Part …