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‘We wanted to take control’: Inside Sony Pictures Entertainment’s in-house strategy

TribalData says “A reason why advertisers are licensing tools such as Data Management platforms (DMP) and manage their digital campaigns in-house has some explanation around the value of DATA. The control & ownership of data is crucial. Tribaldata’s community wants to highlight to the advertising ecosystem the important asset of the user behavior data. Data …

How top health websites are sharing sensitive data with advertisers

“Some of the UK’s most popular health websites are sharing people’s sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses, drug names and menstrual and fertility information — with dozens of companies around the world, ranging from ad-targeting giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Oracle, to lesser-known data-brokers and adtech firms like Scorecard and OpenX. Using …

Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information

Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and believe it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked. A majority of Americans believe their online and offline activities are being tracked and monitored by companies and the government with some regularity. It …

“Mark Zuckerberg says ‘Privacy is the future’ very confusing”

Businesses, advertisers, commerce always try to persuade people, you know, always try to change people’s behavior and get them to buy something that they didn’t want to buy so there’s nothing new about this. And of course, that’s true. There is nothing new about our desire to persuade each other to do things that we …

Discussion Paper What is the MyData Operator?

“The personal data operator plays the role of an intermediary between data sources and data using services within a trust framework or ecosystem with fiduciary responsibility for the individual. It should create trust and open up a user driven market where individuals are both protected and empowered to use the data that organisations hold about …

Website privacy options aren’t much of a choice since they’re hard to find and use

You’ve probably encountered a pair of shoes that won’t stop following you around the internet, appearing in advertisements on different sites for weeks. While many websites offer a way to opt out of targeted advertisements or unwanted emails, we discovered in our recent research that exercising privacy choices isn’t always easy. But that helped us …

Artificial Intelligence Has Become A Tool For Classifying And Ranking People

Recommending content, powering chatbots, trading stocks, detecting medical conditions, and driving cars. These are only a small handful of the most well-known uses of artificial intelligence, yet there is one that, despite being on the margins for much of AI’s recent history, is now threatening to grow significantly in prominence. This is AI’s ability to …