We’ve know a number of clients or friends whose businesses are going through the initial phases of a data partnership lately. These relationships are often mission-critical, because without the added benefits of the data partnership, sometimes entire business strategies fall apart. At the same time, if you don’t take a thoughtful approach to establishing the… Read More
When you think about it, facial recognition is a deeply “human” action. It’s the most common way for people to recognize one another, it’s one of the earliest stages of our developmental attachment to our parents, and it is, by far, the easiest way to evaluate someone’s credibility, intentions, and personality. It explains why we… Read More
The Internet is a risky place for “expertise.” Because it is both a platform and a megaphone, it creates its own multiplier effect for whatever you put into it. If the arguments of the last few years have proven anything, it’s that even a poorly concocted lie spreads far faster than a well-explained truth, largely… Read More
One recent trend that makes privacy professionals very nervous is the “what’s my DNA say about me” fad. You swab your cheek, mail it off to a lab, and presto: you learn that you’re 99% Irish/Scottish and 1% Pacific Islander with a high chance of getting appendicitis. Obviously, unlocking the mysteries of our ancestry is… Read More
We spend an enormous amount of time talking about the benefits of data partnerships but, of course, they aren’t without their risks. No one enters into a business relationship assuming that everything will go exactly as planned (without serious problems later, anyway). But how do you identify ways to protect your business, your data, and… Read More
If we’ve had this happen once, it’s happened several dozen times. We’ll be discussing our book, or our practice, or how we approach privacy issues, and someone will say something like “Yes, well, you know, data is the new x.” And x can be anything. Oil, money, gold, papayas, whatever. The analogy is, essentially, that… Read More