E-commerce and the GDPR

This week a colleague and I went to the “2018 e-Commerce Expo”: https://www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk/

Our aim was to gauge the market for GDPR services in the SME e-Commerce sector: how did people feel about it, what was the privacy support like from their 3^rd- party service providers?

In short, was there a need for JEM and our services?

On that front we came away feeling quite buoyed, albeit with the occasional sigh of disappintment. The Platform providers generally ‘got it’ when it came ...

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26
SEP
2018

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compliance, E-commerce, gdpr, on-line, personal data, privacy

Just Irritating, or a Symptom of a Bigger Problem?

Posted by: Matt Whiteman

A lot of comment on social media is about the impact (or lack thereof) of GDPR on Direct Marketing: “Another company still sending me emails, despite me saying no!” sums up a whole slew of Tweets.

I’ll cover some specifics on the opt-in/out controversy and the PECR later (hint – it’s not as straightforward as people want to believe). But it got me to thinking – are we “data subjects” focusing on the wrong thing?

The GDPR is first and foremost about ...

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18
SEP
2018

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compliance, DPA, gdpr, PECR, privacy, risk management