In an interesting development the FTC has launched a request for information that will shed more light on certain companies’ privacy practices. The most notable trend in FTC request for information is in our view the request made on companies around data collection practices and only after data processing practices. We are immensely grateful to […]
Here is what we think of Mark Zuckerberg yesterday’s announcement on its renewed value proposition to end-users. The proclaim seems very user and privacy friendly, focusing on encryption and ephemerality. But what we read between lines looks much bigger. It’s a U-turn approach to how Facebook does business and compete in the marketplace. Up to […]
Germany will enforce European law against Facebook if it combines its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messaging services into a unified platform that would amount to a “monopoly,” according to the country’s justice minister. “This [plan to merge messaging services] raises major questions about antitrust and data protection,” Katarina Barley, a Social Democrat, said in a […]
Apple and Facebook are clearly very distant on privacy approach. In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their phone in exchange for $20 per month. Apple […]
Not a surprise that the industry starts looking into employment/workforce generated data as potentially triggering great value and reusability/monetization opportunities. Fortunately, the Accenture study preconizes for a successful data model relying on workforce generated data the expressed consent rule and the set up of a transparent gain participation scheme for employees. We @ErnieApp share such vision and […]
We read with interest one of the first Facebook investors, Roger McNamee call’s for action, published on TIME this week. We share with him a common sense of urgency that action is needed. We agree with all of his proposed lines of actions that span from adopting new enforceable privacy regulation also in US, alike […]
Jan 22, 2019 | When reading the news on the French CNIL fine on Google, we at ErnieApp believe that technology is an enabler and should never become a barrier for consumers. Privacy by design is a challenging task for IT companies and GDPR has uplifted the bar so we also understand why it’s difficult […]
Jan 7 2019 | We at ErnieApp we call on digital companies to become fully open and transparent toward consumers privacy as we see it as a new powerful conversational marketing proposition. Consumers will reward those companies (with contextual data) if companies do not hide or artificially make complex how privacy is implemented on their […]
Google freshly appointed Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright wrote this week “Now, more than any other time I have worked in this field, there is real momentum to develop baseline rules of the road for data protection”, and then he added “Google welcomes this and supports comprehensive, baseline privacy regulation”. So it seems Big G […]
Politicians questioning big tech companies business practices is becoming a wider practice recently. Not surprisingly the top raised question rounds around the same ‘topic’: has consent been acquired from users and if yes was it legitimate? We should praise politicians for questioning it but we should rather ask ourselves “why have we not checked ourselves” […]