Category: DATA PROTECTION
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5 Ways to Protect Your Online Accounting Service
When you cater to businesses raking in near 7 figures a year, demand for online accounting and consulting services is high. A 24-hour, 7-day a week consultant is a handy thing! That account and consulting is a business, in and of itself. And as a business, you need to make sure you’re protected from fraud,…
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Data Scraping LinkedIn Verdict Boosts Your Email Marketing Potential
LinkedIn lost the preliminary case regarding web scraping, effectively ending the limbo that writers, journalists, and marketers remained trapped in when it came to using public and archived data. This ruling could lead to major changes for email marketing, which is great for targeting new leads and boosting conversions. Let’s explain. Summing Up the Court…
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Plaid Class-Action Lawsuit Reveals Open Banking’s Biggest Problem – Here’s How to Protect Your Customer’s Data
Privacy concerns are trending since before the pandemic–swirling around the topic of open banking. If you’re not sure what open banking is, it’s the concept of allowing third-party companies to use consumer financial data for additional services and features. There are two main companies that provide open-banking platforms: Plaid and Trustly. Now, it might sound like…
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Why Consumer Data is Valuable to Both Businesses and Consumers
Data has become synonymous with breaches of privacy in recent years. The fear consumers have of their personal data being shared, used, and sold across the world is unappealing. It doesn’t help that so many big tech, and big data, companies like Microsoft and Amazon have exposed customer information in one way or another. Consumer…
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Should You Be Worried About General Data Protection Regulation?
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law went into effect on May 25th, 2018 in hopes of changing the way businesses gather customer data and how they use it. You’ve probably seen numerous consumer privacy emails clogging up your inbox in the past few weeks. While these “We’ve updated our privacy policy” emails are annoying,…
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