Data Marketing

Why are Canadian businesses often caught violating customers’ privacy rights, not protecting personal data they hold and victimized by data breaches? One answer is they don’t know they have to follow provincial and federal privacy laws. It may be even worse. “Frankly, judging by some of the phone calls we…

As is obvious from seemingly incessant news reports of data breaches, businesses often do not adequately protect all of the information that they should be securing. In fact, in November 2015 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence estimated that espionage predicated through hacking costs businesses in the United States $400 billion per…

There is an old Zig Ziglar quote that says: “The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.” As motivational as this can be, it sounds more like something a sales rep…

Facebook has been clobbered with a landmark ruling in Germany that could mean huge changes to the way it collects data for 32 million users in the country. Germany’s antitrust regulator has told Facebook it must stop forcing users to allow it to collect and combine their data from sources…

As organizations continue to collect large quantities of data, including personal information about individuals, many are asking whether privacy is becoming a competition issue. International regulators are increasingly looking at the intersection between privacy and competition law, especially given that digital competition operates differently from bricks-and-mortar retail stores. This brownbag…

The following is an open letter from The Privacy Commissioner of Canada to Minister Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, regarding the state of privacy and data protection here in Canada. With GDPR setting new standards and the US stirring with some radical laws of their own,…

We all deserve control over our digital lives. That’s why we must rein in the data brokers. (Editor’s note: the new California Consumer Protection Act 2018 specifically targets those businesses who collect, sell and share personal data of California residents, just as GDPR does for EU data subjects.) In 2019, it’s…

IT’S NO SECRET that companies like Facebook and Google scoop up personal information to serve users ads. But if anything became clear this year, it’s that consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their data online—how it’s gathered, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. American corporations…

A new report by Radware shows that the average cost of a cyberattack now exceeds $1 million. (editor’s note: and that’s before fines!) The 2018-2019 Global Application and Network Security Report noted that for those organizations that calculate (versus estimate) the cost of an attack, that number increases to $1.67M. The…