Helen Dixon (Ireland) previews enforcement priorities Helen Dixon from the DPC (Ireland) spoke to the Irish Independent in an interview that was released today about GDPR enforcement and she…
Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a Judgment of the Court of Justice in… The principle impact of the judgment is to clarify the joint responsibility for 3rd party data collection on a website. Not withstanding…
On Facebook, the FTC, and 5 BILLION dollars There are so many ways to look at the FTC’s $5B Facebook fine and the sweeping settlement order that was announced today. Facebook is a…
CNIL statement on Adtech Last Friday, the CNIL (French DPA) issued a short statement about their approach to GDPR and ePrivacy enforcement with the adtech market…
ICO report puts adtech on notice Last week, the ICO released a report on the compliance state of the adtech market, a bit over a year after the onset of GDPR in Europe…
Gathering Consent Post CNIL Vectaury Notice Earlier this week, we tried to set the CNIL Vectaury notice in context. In summary, consent is going to be tough, but we need it and the…
CNIL Vectaury Notice in Context for Digital Media The CNIL Vectaury notice from last month represents the most important public enforcement activity for marketers so far in the post GDPR…
California moves a step closer to EU membership On Thursday, California passed the ‘California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375),’ otherwise known as the ‘Cross-Atlantic GDPR…
What to expect with GDPR post May 25th— an eMarketer podcast with Lucid Had great fun with Lauren Fisher and the eMarketer team talking through how the market is responding to GDPR and what to expect in the…
Zuckerberg’s Testimony and the Fallacy of Consent Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg completed his second day of congressional testimony today, answering a range of questions about the company’s…
Forecasting Consent Threat Level in Europe Consent for online data collection is a squirrelly topic in Europe right now. Leaving aside for the moment whether or not consent ‘aught’…
Stop kvetching: GDPR is Necessary Medicine If you run a technology company that operates in the European market, then by now you’ve certainly heard of the General Data Protection…
Digital TV Ad Market Slides from NAI The NAI organizes an annual summit for the digital marketing tech community each year, and last week’s version was among the best that…
New ePrivacy Rules will Transform Consent — But How? The European Commission is once again threatening the online industry with the potential of transformational changes to meet their…
Congress roughing up FCC privacy rules? Yesterday, the US Senate voted to roll back the FCC’s privacy rules, which would have required ISPs and Carriers seeking to use customer…
The Hazards of iOS for Marketers, Part 1: IDFA Preamble: This blog does not provide legal advice. Every company must consider their own unique context.
PII is Dead For anyone involved in privacy in the late 90’s and early aughts, ‘PII’ or ‘Personally Identifiable Information,’ had a very specific…
Introducing the Lucid Privacy Group Over the last two years, I have had the good fortune to work with some of the most innovative, talented companies in the marketing…