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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

This is an interesting and important read. Interesting because it documents an event that many witnessed and continues to be a high profile news item. Important because as you read the story the extent to which individuals are being tracked from their mobile phone data. In this case, the surveillance of a class of terrorists …

How do we scale the Personal Data Economy?

MyData Plenary Session 10.12.2020 Description: Over the past few years we have witnessed regulators tightening data protection laws, consumers becoming increasingly conscious of their data, industries being built around the sharing of specific data sets (e.g., open banking), and start-ups developing platforms to facilitate the exchange of data. But what does it take to scale the …

On Zero-Party Data and the dangers of consent-based Marketing

There have been many recent definitions of Zero Party data, centering on the consumers sharing data with a brand as a very deliberate act. There is a gray area in between first party data held in a CRM that is openly declared and actual zero party data volunteered for a specific purpose. This well thought …

Broken: Realigning the Business of Personal Data

Reading List Paper: Digitalisation, anti-rival compensation and governance: Need for experimentsPodcast: Masters of Privacy – Marketing Digital y Zero Party DataBlog: On Zero Party Data and the Dangers of consent-based MarketingBlog: Can you build trust through offering privacy? In this Session Gam Dias (Host) 3PointsDIGITAL LinkedIN Celine Takatsuno Gracepoint Inc. LinkedIN Sergio Maldanado Privacy Cloud …

Highway to (Digital) Surveillance: When Are Clients Coerced to Share Their Data with Insurers?

Actuaries were the first data scientists. Pooled risk calculations, in the form of insurance underwriting, involved consumers implicitly consenting to their personal data being used – in return, the reduction of premium costs. Data in exchange for money. As technology advances, the data streams we are able to offer, or rather the insurers feel they …

China’s Draft ‘Personal Information Protection Law’ (Full Translation)

Table of Contents Chapter I: General Provisions Chapter II: Personal Information Handling Rules  Section I: Common Provisions Section II: Rules for Handling Sensitive Personal Information Section III: Specific Provisions on State Organs Handling Personal Information Chapter III: Rules on the Cross-Border Provision of Personal Information Chapter IV: Individuals’ Rights in Personal Information Handling Activities Chapter …

Why Privacy for Profit: Can you build trust through offering privacy?

A thought that has been simmering for a few days now, if consumers want privacy, that seems to imply they don’t have it today. If they don’t have privacy – in an age where those complaining live, fully clothed and made up, in gated communities, behind doors with locks, in rooms with doors, with their …