70% of Android apps have at least one dangerous permission: Pixalate Report
“Pay close attention to data collection, transmission and storage practices of app partners.”
“Pay close attention to data collection, transmission and storage practices of app partners.”
IAB Tech Lab looks to re-architect digital marketing IAB Tech Lab’s Board this month committed to collaborate to achieve privacy-centric solutions to preserve addressable advertising as part of their Project Rearc initiative. Key principles include having device agnostic solutions that put consumers first; offering consumers predictable privacy; providing user-friendly, transparent privacy controls; and ensuring ongoing adherence to consumer privacy choices.
Luxury Institute: Marketers must make privacy a top brand asset In a survey conducted by Transcend, 98% of 1,000 consumers agreed data privacy is important to them and will be even more critical in the next five years. The Luxury Institute views the management of privacy as a missed opportunity for companies – viewed more as a legal task than a marketing opportunity. They say companies must reverse that and play to win by creating “personal data pods,” so consumers can actively manage their data assets.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)