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Why brands can’t keep consumers in the dark on data tracking

on Jan 2, 2020 | 0 comments

By Thomas Hobbs

Marketers are still not doing a good enough job explaining to consumers how their data is being tracked.

Speaking on a panel at The Drum’s Programmatic Punch event earlier this month, Belle Cartwright, director of data strategy for EMEA at Essence, said that even though GDPR is changing how brands approach data, many are still banking on consumers being willfully ignorant. She argued that this was the “wrong strategy.”

“You have to inform consumers properly on how their data is being used. How many of them know, for example, that their device ID on their smartphone is being stored Read full story ›

Source: The Drum