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Data privacy
The next foundation of advertising user identities
Adtech vendors encourage advertisers to enhance their cookie-based user identities with data that the users provide themselves such as email addresses. This development requires a thorough balancing of business and privacy.

Privacy-Led Marketing
Turning privacy challenges into design opportunities
Explore how Hinto Group blends design, AI, and data systems to create user-centric, privacy-led solutions that drive trust, innovation, and brand growth.

Privacy-Led Marketing
AI and digital marketing
Andy Crestodina explores how AI, privacy, and digital strategy intersect in today’s marketing landscape, offering insights on UX, compliance, and the future of the web

Unlocking growth: The power of strategic partnerships for ecommerce in the evolving privacy landscape
Consented: Episode 6

Google’s EU user consent policy – what’s changed and what does it mean for advertisers?
Consented: Episode 2

Quiet in the cloud: how tech is redefining solitude
In an era of constant connectivity, solitude has taken on a new meaning. It is a paradox: to be physically alone yet digitally connected. Social media and smart devices redefine personal space, blurring boundaries between connection and isolation. As privacy concerns grow, how can users navigate solitude in the digital age?

What is privacy? Rights, needs, and strategic choices
Privacy shapes how we’re seen, how we trust, and how we grow. In an era of algorithmic noise and eroding trust, this article reimagines privacy as a human need — and a powerful strategy for marketers ready to build with care.

Data privacy
Small business, big trust: Leveraging privacy to gain a competitive edge
In terms of digital privacy, small businesses have an unexpected edge. While large enterprises struggle with complex data systems, our European survey reveals that 35% of businesses fear loss of customer trust more than regulatory fines. This presents a remarkable opportunity to transform privacy practices into a competitive advantage.

Privacy-Led Marketing
After attention: Trust in the age of digital abundance
From the first AI algorithm to today’s social feeds, our digital world has transformed attention into an abundant yet devalued resource. As content floods every platform, trust has become the internet’s most valuable asset. This article explores how Privacy-Led Marketing is powering the shift from attention-driven metrics to the new trust economy.

Data privacy
Data Privacy Heroes: 8 Individuals Who Changed How We Think About Online Privacy
Online privacy wouldn’t be the same without these visionaries. From encryption to legal frameworks, these eight trailblazers have shaped how we protect our data in the digital age. Discover their lasting impact and the lessons we can learn from their work in safeguarding our online world.

Privacy-Led Marketing
The new era of Privacy-Led Marketing in the US
The US is undergoing a major shift toward privacy-led marketing, driven by data breaches, evolving consumer expectations, and stricter regulations. Businesses must balance personalization with transparency, leveraging privacy-focused technologies and ethical data practices.

Data privacy
Digital technology and privacy regulation
Privacy in the digital age is shaped by the technology we use daily. From the internet’s beginning to AI-driven platforms, digital architecture often governs privacy more than legislation. This article explores key regulatory milestones and the future of privacy in a tech-driven world.

Data privacy
From compliance to strategy: How European businesses are transforming privacy management
Privacy management is now a strategic priority, with 73 percent of decisions made at the executive level. A survey of 600 leaders across Europe reveals a shift toward C-suite involvement, varied privacy approaches, and sector-driven digital adaptation. Larger firms favor hybrid models, balancing control with expertise.

Privacy-Led Marketing
The origins of privacy in Europe
Privacy in Europe has deep historical roots, shaped by philosophy, law, and societal change. Once a privilege, it is now a fundamental right—but this wasn’t always the case. From ancient times to GDPR and the digital age, explore how privacy evolved and why it remains a crucial issue in today’s world.

Privacy-Led Marketing
The Cookie Banner is the New Homepage
The web is the backbone of the digital economy, evolving from static pages to dynamic ecosystems of commerce, media, and interaction. As data privacy reshapes online experiences, brands must adapt. The cookie banner, once a compliance tool, now defines trust and engagement. The future belongs to those who embrace this shift.
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Data privacy
From compliance to strategy: How European businesses are transforming privacy management

Data privacy
Small business, big trust: Leveraging privacy to gain a competitive edge
In terms of digital privacy, small businesses have an unexpected edge. While large enterprises struggle with complex data systems, our European survey reveals that 35% of businesses fear loss of customer trust more than regulatory fines. This presents a remarkable opportunity to transform privacy practices into a competitive advantage.

Privacy-Led Marketing
After attention: Trust in the age of digital abundance
From the first AI algorithm to today’s social feeds, our digital world has transformed attention into an abundant yet devalued resource. As content floods every platform, trust has become the internet’s most valuable asset. This article explores how Privacy-Led Marketing is powering the shift from attention-driven metrics to the new trust economy.

Data privacy
Data Privacy Heroes: 8 Individuals Who Changed How We Think About Online Privacy
Online privacy wouldn’t be the same without these visionaries. From encryption to legal frameworks, these eight trailblazers have shaped how we protect our data in the digital age. Discover their lasting impact and the lessons we can learn from their work in safeguarding our online world.
What is contextual consent?
Definition, real-world use cases, and why it matters for marketers.
Newsreel
This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Noam Shemtov. We are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional. We ask search engines everything: What movies are playing (and which are worth seeing)? Where’s the nearest clinic (and how do I get there)? Who’s running in the…
Across the country, people are collecting and sharing footage of masked law enforcement officers from both federal and local agencies deputized to do so-called immigration enforcement: arresting civilians, in some cases violently and/or warrantlessly. That footage is part of a long tradition of recording law enforcement during their operations to ensure some level of accountability if people observe misconduct…
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found. Our review of public records from police agencies already using the technology — including…
The moment Axon Enterprise announced a new product, Draft One, that would allow law enforcement officers to use artificial intelligence to automatically generate incident report narratives based on body-worn camera audio, everyone in the police accountability community immediately started asking the same questions. What do AI-generated police reports look like? What kind of paper trail…