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What is the GDPR? And What Does it Mean for the Marketing Industry?

Hubspot

Disclaimer: This blog post is not legal advice for your company to use in complying with EU data privacy laws like the GDPR. Instead, it provides background information to help you better understand the GDPR. If you’re a marketer, we expect you’ve heard about the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) coming into force on 25 May 2018.

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Why we care about compliance in marketing

Martech

Marketing laws and regulations are nothing new. Until relatively recently, marketing regulations rarely went beyond the realms of trademark, truth in advertising and similar areas of consumer protection. They cite research purporting customers demand that marketers focus on personalization and seamless omnichannel experience.

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MarTech’s guide to GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation

Martech

GDPR would eliminate the need for individual countries to write their own regulations — as well as requiring any company, regardless of location, that markets goods or services to EU residents to comply with the law. This will support a smooth functioning of the GDPR cooperation and dispute resolution mechanisms,” the Commission noted.

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Shifts in data privacy are forcing a return to marketing fundamentals

Search Engine Land

If we’re not already, we will be facing a reckoning in the world of search marketing. Search marketing is a heavily data-centric world. Users have become increasingly aware of what data is collected and how it is used online. The European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) almost six years ago in 2018.

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Web analytics is badly broken 

Martech

Years ago, I was working with an ecommerce team that would hire and fire based on what they saw in their Google Analytics dashboard. It’s hard to see anything like that happening in today’s world, where marketers are increasingly doubting the accuracy and veracity of their analytics data. The reason for this is one word: privacy.

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EU hits Meta with $414m fine over advertising practices

Martech

The board found this to be in violation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The reaction of marketers to this news might be mixed. doesn’t have anything in place quite like GDPR — yet, anyway. What happens next. What the board has not done is tell Meta how to solve the problem. Why we care.

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Google issues urgent steps for advertisers running campaigns in the EU

Search Engine Land

Marketers need to send verifiable consent signal(s) to Google as the search engine prepares to step up the enforcement of its EU User Consent Policy (EU UCP). What is EU UCP? This policy mandates marketers using Google for advertising to obtain and respect end-users’ consent. What Google is saying. Why we care.

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