Archive for the ‘privacy’ Category

Officially, 26th May 2012 is the day that the UK regulators will be enforcing their 2011 update to the PECR, which requires companies to take opt-in consent for tracking information (including cookies) on websites. The regulations were actually updated one year ago, but the regulators gave businesses 12 months to get their house in order [...]

As the deadline looms for the EU Cookie Directive on 26 May we have finally been issued with a code of conduct which aims to clarify what’s expected of website owners and lays down the penalties for those who breach it. Unsurprisingly it hasn’t come from the Information Commissioner’s Office but from the International Chamber [...]

This week Google has announced a new feature to its product suite which gives individual users an overview of their activity month on month. Account Activity will be linked to your Google account and will summarise all of your activity including number of emails sent, most popular searches and where in the world you’ve signed [...]

Here’s some good news! Online transactions are getting safer and more secure. Figures released last week by Financial Fraud Action UK reveal that there has been a 3% reduction in the number of fraudulent transactions being carried out online. In … Continue reading →

The last week has seen a deluge of articles flooding news sites and social network talking about the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills currently being proposed by the House of Representatives. I wouldn’t recommend trying to read the documents unless you have some serious insomnia issues but [...]

Spam texts are clearly a problem. Although they represent a much smaller percentage than email spam (around 3% vs 75%), mobile is a much more personal channel. Maybe one solution could come from a preference service? In the UK there is one for voice called the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). It is widely known by [...]

Yesterday, Facebook announced they’d be taking users’ privacy a lot more seriously. The network reached an agreement with the FTC, the American Federal Trade Commission. The FTC had charged Facebook with deceiving users by telling them their information would remain private but later making it public without consulting them. The FTC has a list of [...]

Five months have passed since the EU Privacy Directive became law in the UK and it seems we’re no closer to finding a solution than we were before the law came into effect back in May. All in all the new laws seem to be built on the misguided assumption that all cookies are evil [...]

Well if you have any association with loyalty marketing, you can’t fail to have noticed the new brand on the block, Aimia.Whilst exciting news (full disclosure – I work for Aimia), it was also great to see some new research released at the same time wh…

  Google responds to privacy laws in Germany. While the big brains are still knocking their heads together over the new privacy laws, Hamburg’s data protection commissioner, Johannes Caspar, is already making strides to force local companies to comply. Caspar has been working with Google’s Germany HQ, also based in Hamburg, to ensure companies using [...]