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Why Privacy is Hard Work
For Data Privacy Day, let’s commit to a culture of privacy by design, nurtured by a knowledgeable team that can execute an effective operational compliance program. This past May, you heard an awful lot about the GDPR, which is short for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. For one brief,…
Read More »A CASL Compliance Scorecard for Your Organization
SO YOUR THINK YOUR ORGANIZATION IS CASL COMPLIANT? It’s been 4 and a half years since CASL came into force, causing businesses to convert our existing lists into CASL compliant lists. Even today, many Canadian organizations are not even close to CASL compliance. I will explain. The law came into…
Read More »CASL: The 5 Types of Consent
As stated by CRTC: “Canada’s new anti-spam law was passed in December 2010 and, following a Governor in Council order, it entered into force on July 1, 2014. The law will help to protect Canadians while ensuring that businesses can continue to compete in the global marketplace. On January 15, 2015, sections…
Read More »Working hard, or hardly working?
As part of our commitment to leading discussions around important industry issues, The Message is working with nabs Canada on a series of reports examining key determinants in workplace health—from diversity, to ageism, to bullying and sexism. In Part 1, CHRIS POWELL got an exclusive look at a new study from Morneau…
Read More »Trust: sinners, saints and Terry Pratchett; and Nick Clegg’s real job
A new report shows a public crisis of trust caused by a host of advertising sins. Dominic Mills picks them apart in the search for a cure. Plus: Facebook regulation and a Super Bowl alternative. I’m not a big fan of Terry Pratchett although I recognise he is, well, a…
Read More »Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)
Privacy regulators in Poland, Ireland, and the UK urged to act against online ad auctions following new evidence about massive leakage of highly intimate data about web users. Panoptykon Foundation filed a new complaint with the Polish Data Protection Authority today, joining the ad auction complaints already being examined in…
Read More »Beware Big Tech’s Data Privacy Doublespeak
Just a couple months ago, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty inveighed against big tech companies abusing people’s data at a privacy conference in Brussels. She cited a “trust crisis,” ascribing its origins to “the irresponsible handling of personal data by a few dominant consumer-facing platforms.” Rometty did not have to identify the subjects of her…
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