ePrivacy Guidance for Webtrends Customers

April 6th, 2012
Filed Under: Privacy

Webtrends is enhancing its data collection technologies to provide its clients with the necessary flexibility to comply with the laws’ requirements, and to retain their customers and visitors trust.

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Do-Not-Track Q&A

November 22nd, 2011
Filed Under: Featured, Perspectives, User Experience

What is Do-Not-Track? Do-Not-Track (DNT) is a framework unveiled in Dec 2010 by the FTC setting guidelines for providing consumers with notice and choice about data collection. What are the key elements of the framework? The FTC spelled out three key elements: reduce the burden on consumers to seek out and “choose” privacy protective data

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The Downside of Prior Consent, Now in Chart Form

June 23rd, 2011
Filed Under: Digital Marketing, Perspectives

Back in 2009, the EU amended the Data Protection Directive to better protect visitors to web sites.  EU countries had until May 26, 2011 to pass laws implementing this directive, and while few countries complied, the UK passed regulations and asked companies to comply before the summer of 2012.  The UK ICO provide some guidance

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More Clarity on EU Cookie Laws

June 10th, 2011
Filed Under: Perspectives

On June 6th, Hunton & Williams hosted a Consent for Cookies: Preparing for the EU Cookie Law webinar with David Evans, Group Manager of Business and Industry of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, as well as short updates on legislative actions in France, Germany and the Netherlands. We attended and wanted to provide our customers

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EU Directive and Cookie Law Q&A

May 27th, 2011
Filed Under: Perspectives

The deadline has passed and we’re not anywhere closer to understanding the EU nations’ regulatory framework for cookies.  Besides frustrations, this uncertainty provides a silver lining: businesses now have more time (the UK ICO gives website owners one year to comply with cookies law) to figure out what’s expected from them and come up with

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