Google wants its publishers in Europe to solicit users’ consent on its behalf under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy rules. The GDPR rules which will take effect on May 25, requires companies to gain explicit consent for collection and use of personal information in targeted ads. And Google’s consent plan is something […]
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In January of this year, the revelation of memory-related vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown rocked the entire computing world—everyone had been sitting on top of a potential landmine for decades that hackers could have taken advantage of. After the initial shock wore off, various chip manufacturers immediately came up with a host of fixes
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A major change is on the business horizon. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect on May 25, 2018, bringing with it major changes to data protection laws. The question now is whether your company is ready for it. How it Affects US-Based Businesses Europe’s GDPR is designed to consolidate and bolster
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How many times have we said that email has the highest ROI, or that’s it’s the most effective marketing channel? It even looks like we have some kind of secret master plan to trick everyone into using email… 🤔 Subtle marketing techniques aside, the truth is email is a quick, cheap and highly customizable way
The year 2018 is poised to be an exciting time in the payments industry as new trends and technologies emerge. The previous year actually witnessed some major changes in how payments were made. Consumers were introduced to new transfer methods and the PSD2 push as the demand for safer, smarter, and faster transactions reached critical
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As our resident legal expert here at Mailjet, I set aside at least a full day each week to take care of our data privacy issues. I had put together a compliance roadmap of items to be handled before the year-end as part of the GDPR readiness plan. The next item on my to do
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In case you missed my first post, I am documenting our GDPR compliance journey, from where I sit as an in-house attorney working for an EU and International SaaS company. Get up to speed by reading my first diary entry. Take your mind back… It’s the end of May – one year before the new
I’m Darine Fayed, (Head of Legal @Mailjet, attorney practicing for more than 14 years) and I write from a personal viewpoint of an in-house lawyer who, along with the rest of EU and international companies, is under the pressure of getting our company ready for GDPR before May 2018. New to GDPR and wondering if
Individuals’ Rights Under GDPR Nathan: What are the individuals’ rights in all this? David: Yeah, that’s a great question. Because under the GDPR, the individual has the right to be informed, to be told, ‘I got your information from here, and this is what I’m going to do with it, and this is what I’m
Be proactive not reactive: Five simple steps to protect your brand reputation from future cyber attacks On Friday 12th May, a global coordinated ransomware ‘attack’ began, affecting thousands of large and small private and public sector businesses. The attacks most high-profile victim, the NHS, suffered incredibly by way of operational business functionality, but also by
