Honesty about Targeting Improves Results: Harvard Business Review Paper
Hopefully you don’t need convincing that marketers should be honest about how they use customer data. But if you do need a little push, here’s a Harvard Business Review study that found recommendations including an explanation of the data used (“based on your clicks on our site” or “based on what you’ve shared with us”) had higher click and spending rates than recommendations that didn’t describe their basis. Bonus: the paper includes some sound advice for using personal data wisely.