by Brian Clifton | Feb 6, 2023 | GDPR & Privacy
11 years ago a guy called Max Schrems burst on to the scene (NYT article). I thought then “At last, online privacy will be taken seriously. The industry I have worked in is at a tipping point” – but, nothing really changed. 2013 – Ed Snowden...
by Brian Clifton | Oct 18, 2021 | GDPR & Privacy, Most Popular
What’s the difference between data privacy and data protection? They seem intuitively self explanatory, and yet if you think about it for a minute, they are quite complex to describe – they are both related and yet separate at the same time. Even if you...
by Brian Clifton | Jul 2, 2021 | GDPR & Privacy, Most Popular
I have written about gaining consent to track over many years, both here and on LinkedIn, and although most discussions are positive around my thinking and approach, detractors point to the fact I am not legal qualified, which is true. So this time I have formalised...
by Brian Clifton | Feb 8, 2021 | GDPR & Privacy, Most Popular
Getting a website’s privacy and consent process done right is difficult. In fact, my research shows 98% of websites get consent wrong*. Apart from the myriad of privacy decisions required to be compliant for laws such as GDPR, there are still plenty of grey areas as...
by Brian Clifton | Aug 6, 2019 | GDPR & Privacy
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is the privacy watchdog in the UK. Recently they posted their interpretation: “Cookies – what does ‘good’ look like?” (ICOs original post now removed, though see this equivalent article). And it’s stark...