GDPR turns one year old: an overview
As of tomorrow 25 May 2019, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have been in force for exactly one year, so let’s have a look at what has happened this year. The GDPR still...
Privacy & Ethics
San Francisco bans use of facial recognition
Legislators in San Francisco yesterday voted to approve a ban on the use of Facial Recognition (FR) technology by city agencies, including the police department and the city’s transport authority....
The US: a complex patchwork of privacy and data protection
A somewhat persistent misconception when it comes to privacy is the claim that the United States are a wild west when it comes to the handling of personal data. While it’s true there is no...
Google’s newly launched AI ethics panel has already been shut down
Last week Friday, 5 April, just two and a half weeks after its launch, Google shut down its global advisory council (ATEAC) which was designed to oversee ethical issues related to artificial intelligence....
Is unstructured data the new lifeblood of market research?
The “briefing questions for unstructured data” were published by ESOMAR last week, and not a moment too soon. It was high time to replace the “24 Questions to help buyers of social media research” published...
ARF adopts a new Code and enforcement programme
The ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) has launched its first member code of conduct governing ethical research and related data collection by member companies....