Articles on Privacy and Personal Data

Actuaries were the first data scientists. Pooled risk calculations, in the form of insurance underwriting, involved consumers implicitly consenting to […]

Table of Contents Chapter I: General Provisions Chapter II: Personal Information Handling Rules  Section I: Common Provisions Section II: Rules […]

A thought that has been simmering for a few days now, if consumers want privacy, that seems to imply they […]

“Zero-Party data: a step forward towards market dynamics controlled by demand, and not by supply, as a result of more […]

What Are Anti-Rival Goods? Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Pekka Nikander, Professor of Practise, Aalto University […]

There is a large ecosystem of four key players that is trading our data and our attention for revenues, at […]

It is inevitable that Artificial Intelligence gets embedded into pretty much every machine and system we interact with. The benefits […]

I like this post because it does a couple of things: Firstly it shows how the ‘data mindset’ works, how […]

The current model of CRM sees B2B principles applied to B2C markets and that really just does not work. A […]

“My investigation of the location tracking done by Tim Hortons on its customers started in October 2019, when my phone […]

According to survey results shared exclusively with Axios, Americans broadly want more control over what happens with their personal information […]

Dark patterns show up all over the web, nudging people to subscribe to newsletters, add items to their carts, or […]

“..there’s a downside to big data, as it requires aggregating vast amounts of potentially sensitive personal information. Whether amassing medical […]

A podcast of the Web Science Trust, hosted by the Sonic Research Group at Northwestern University Podcast and transcript: Untangling […]

This is not a new post, dating from 2017, but it is worth listing here because of its increasing relevance […]