Last Thursday the European Court of Justice declared the EU/US Privacy Shield, which regulates the secure transfer of personal data to the USA, to be ineffective. This has a direct impact on your digital marketing activities. What is the EU/US Privacy Shield? According to the European General Data Protection Regulation …
Since the implementation of the GDPR in May 2018, not all its provisions have been made clear and some can still be interpreted in different ways. Exemplary court rulings are needed to establish legal interpretations for these in detail. Such decisions then serve as a guideline for further judgments and …
Since the introduction of the GDPR in May 2018, not all points have been clearly regulated and can be interpreted differently. Exemplary court rulings are needed to establish legal interpretations for these in detail. Such decisions then serve as a guideline for further judgements and related issues. What happened? The …
On the 25th of May 2018, almost ten months ago, the European General Data Protection Regulation came into force. After the enormous hype caused by the introduction, you might wonder if the new regulation has had any effect at all. In fact, a lot has happened, fines and warnings have …
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on 25 May 2018. The most important GDPR related changes concerning cookies are: Cookies are regarded as online identifications and thus as personal information. The collection and processing of personal information (including cookies) requires the visitor’s consent. Website operators …
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) require that businesses are able to delete any data they collect about people upon request. This also includes your web analytics tools that collect your website visitors’ data. Fortunately Google Analytics recently launched a feature that makes this easy. If one of …
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. The fear of heavy fines and warnings has resulted in a renewed focus on cookie banners. Before the new data protection regulation came into force, there was speculation about the effects of cookie banners on …
With one extra line of code, Google Analytics will anonymize the IP addresses of all your visitors. It does this by replacing the last octet (the last four digits) in the IP address with 0000. Why Would You Anonymize IPs? The main reason for the anonymization of IPs is to …
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018. This brings with it a risk of serious fines for non-compliance. Ensuring that a company and its online channels are in line with GDPR is usually a major undertaking, which is why there has …
As we get closer to 25 May, the deadline for the new EU data regulations (GDPR), more and more questions are being raised. One of these questions is how Google Analytics measures up to these new regulations. (If you are not familiar with the content of GDPR, here are useful …
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018. It contains fundamental changes in the way personal data can be handled. The new data regulation will become one of the world’s strictest data privacy laws. There is a wealth of information, interpretations and …
The new European Data Protection Regulation takes effect on 25 May 2018. It will bring fundamental changes in the handling of personal data and introduce a number of new challenges for digital marketing. Why GDPR? If you are not yet sure what GDPR is, or if it will affect you, …