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Data protection - consumer safeguard or e-commerce gag?
News With consumer data protection at the top of the EU's agenda, this has to be a priority if the Internet is to mature into a thriving global marketplace. He sees this as an antiquated system that has no use to consumer or company.
[October 30, 1998, 14:35]
Dot-coms see gold in consumer data
News Web analytics is becoming a hot niche in a cold Internet advertising market, as a slew of companies launch projects to make sense of consumer data collected online. These companies are data rich, so research looks like a good idea.
[October 25, 2001, 9:46]
The battle over getting to know you
News Web publishers and advertisers are in a tug-of-war over consumer data gathered in online ad campaigns, a conflict that could muddy the future of interactive marketing on the Internet, television and emerging media.
[February 22, 2002, 6:31]
Search engines race to update privacy policies
News The major search engines are racing to outdo each other in updating their data-retention policies in an attempt to assuage concerns that they keep consumer search data too long. Microsoft and Ask.com also are proposing an industry effort to create...
[July 23, 2007, 8:04]
FSA endorses offshoring
News An investigation into the offshore operations of leading UK financial institutions claims consumer data is at no greater risk in India than in the UK. There is no evidence to suggest consumer data is at greater risk in India than in the UK," said...
[May 6, 2005, 10:00]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard for how companies protect consumer data, the search giant is recommending that remedies focus on whether a person was harmed by having the information exposed.
[September 14, 2007, 8:36]
Phishers hooking victims with stolen data
News Security researchers are reporting a new brand of phishing attack that attempts to use stolen consumer data to rip off individual account holders at specific banks. Cyota co-founder Amir Orad said he believes that the criminals responsible for the...
[May 16, 2005, 9:45]
Intellidyn Stores, Optimizes, Mines and Manages Data With SAS
White Papers Established in 1998, Intellidyn lays claim to the most atomic-level storehouse of consumer data in the United States and the only 360-degree view of the coveted U.S.consumer - a view that includes purchasing behavior, demographic, lifestyle and...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Companies fight to protect cookies
News Big companies are fighting to hang onto their cookies, although not strictly out of sensitivity to Web privacy -- they want the juicy consumer data for themselves. Appreciating the value of that kind of consumer research -- and wanting to keep it...
[March 20, 2000, 12:32]
Watchdog aims to compel data-breach confessions
News The National Consumer Council watchdog is calling on lawmakers to force businesses to confess to data breaches. The National Consumer Council (NCC) is petitioning the EU to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform customers when...
[September 2, 2008, 9:22]
A Year Ago: Ovum lays out 3G mobile roadmap
News However as full technical capabilities will not be fully available at launch in 2001, Ovum suggests network operators will need to develop a long term plan of extending existing services to drive consumer demand for data-intensive 3G services.
[October 31, 2000, 6:02]
Vodafone on verge of consumer 3G
News With the 3G/GPRS datacard, Vodafone became the first to offer a 3G data service, but in the consumer space it will be second, at best, behind Hutchison with its 3 service. Details of a 3G consumer product will be formally unveiled in a couple of...
[April 2, 2004, 17:40]
Search tool scans blogs for business
News Moreover Technologies, which provides aggregated business information for clients such as the UK government and Microsoft, has launched a search tool aimed at allowing corporations to tap into the consumer data generated by the anarchic world of...
[September 18, 2003, 17:20]
Security and Trust: The Backbone of Doing Business over the Internet
White Papers With VeriSign you can put technology in place to help your online business protect customer data and build consumer trust. Learn about technology available that helps online businesses protect sensitive customer data, authenticate themselves, and...
[June 5, 2009, 14:59]
Bisnode Interact Significantly Reduces Data Warehouse Platform Costs With European Framework
White Papers The challenge was to create a multichannel marketing platform for a large multinational Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) customer, supporting the need for a new European data warehousing approach. Bisnode Interact worked with Oracle Partner...
[July 30, 2009, 1:21]
Loyalty Cards: Are You Missing Out on Smarter Ranging and Promotional Intelligence?
White Papers Customer loyalty data is widely available in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry. It has the potential to provide unparalleled understanding by placing the consumer at the centre of the issue, escaping the traditional reliance on...
[August 11, 2006, 0:00]
Groups take EU privacy fight public
News In addition to the resolution opposing the safe harbour plan, the TACD also passed resolutions urging the U.S.and the EU to include consumer groups in their negotiations on implementing the Data Directive, and urging that international rules on...
[April 29, 1999, 14:09]
Seagate DVR drive sports new streaming standard
News Hard-drive maker Seagate said on Thursday that it is shipping the first consumer-electronics drives that use a new industry standard for data streaming. Seagate said its new drives may find their way into consumer devices beyond DVRs, such as audio...
[August 29, 2003, 10:50]
AMD adds more flash to its memory
News AMD is expanding the variety of chips based on its flash-memory technology that allows twice as much data to be stored on cell phones and other consumer electronics devices. Demand for advanced features in a variety of consumer electronic products...
[November 13, 2002, 8:13]
Mobile hard drive revolution proposed
News The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea that hard drives can do more than store data in consumer electronics products such as MP3 players and cell phones. Consumer devices with this type of drive functionality could emerge in 2006...
[October 11, 2004, 15:10]
