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What Has Been Learned From Data Gurus So Far

Data Gurus is a podcast that I launched this year to help our industry navigate the changing data ecosystem together. My mission is to bring you real-life perspectives on what’s happening in the industry and how successful companies and individuals in this niche navigate through the sea of change. Although the lines seem blurred in terms of where we...

Fair Data in a Climate of Distrust

In this article first published in AMSRS Research News, Kerry Sunderland looks at the potential impact on market and social research companies and how Fair Data is part of the solution in the wake of the recent Cambridge Analytica/Facebook and Google personal data harvesting scandals. Revelations that Cambridge Analytica misused Facebook members’ personal data and more recent allegations from fellow tech...

Do you need to appoint a data protection officer? ...

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Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) many data controllers and data processors will be required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) with formal responsibility for ensuring data protection compliance within the business. DPO’s can be either employees or consultants but must be given special protections including sufficient resources, access to personnel and operations as well as significant...

Cookies Anyone? EU Commission proposes changes to ePrivacy Directive

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Coming on the heels of far reaching reforms to the data protection landscape from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), proposed revisions to the EU ePrivacy Directive are now centre stage. The EU Commission have published a Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation ePrivacy Regulation to replace the previous Directive. Directly enforceable in all EU Member States the new regulation...

Data Protection: Regulation changes in Japan

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Japan Marketing Research Association informs us about four revisions to the Personal Information Protection Act in Japan: Clarification of the definition of personal information Personally identifiable data (such as fingerprint data, face recognition data, passport numbers, licence numbers, and mobile phone numbers) added as specific examples of personal information Newly establish “information requiring special consideration” Ensuring the usability of...

GDPR Research Code Update ...

Almost one year on from the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regulatory authorities across the EU, have turned their attention to the promotion of Codes of Conduct, new sector-driven GDPR accountability tools. EFAMRO and ESOMAR, working together with national associations across the EU, support the focus on this initiative. We are drafting a new Code, to help...

Answering Your GDPR Questions – Advice on Unintentionally Housing EU Data?

We were asked recently: "Have you any practical advice to US MR firms who don't have an EU presence but may unintentionally be housing EU data (e.g., somebody gives me a sample of customers and some of those folks are in the EU)?  We've got our US Privacy Shield in place but not sure that's enough." Dr Michelle Goddard,...

Data Protection & Information Security: Sharing knowledge

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Sharing knowledge and know-how is GRBN's key objective in the areas of data protection and information security. As the regulatory environment concerning data protection continues to evolve around the world and as the information security challenges multiple, both national associations and regional federations have a vital role to play in helping their members navigate the waters. GRBN supports its member...
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