When the State sells your personal data…

...it is with the Privacy Authority blessing! This case is typical of the current French system, but this may echo some concerns elsewhere, so I have made a summary of an original post in French, so as to trigger discussion... Basically all French politicians are claiming they want to fight the Privacy breaches, especially when North-American internet … Continue reading When the State sells your personal data…

Data Elicitation in three steps (2/3): Data Enrichment

Data enrichment Enrichment skills: Data Categorization (Coding policies, working methods)  Collaboration Scheme (Tool implementation, support, team coaching) Coding Strategies (Outsourcing, QA, SLA's) Original post (illustrating the Data Enrichment concept) : The second step of elicitation is enrichment. Once your data have been patterned, you have to design their look and feel. This is what data … Continue reading Data Elicitation in three steps (2/3): Data Enrichment

Analytics without cookies? My follow-up to #MeasureCamp IV

As mentioned in my previous post "Giving up cookies for a new internet... The third age of targeting is at your door.", I have attended the fourth Measure Camp in London (http://www.measurecamp.org), on March 29th. And my (voluntarily controversial) topic has been: "Web Analytics without cookies?" The subject has been introduced by the following three charts, a short … Continue reading Analytics without cookies? My follow-up to #MeasureCamp IV

Giving up cookies for a new internet… The third age of targeting is at your door.

While preparing next week's Measure Camp in London (http://www.measurecamp.org), I had been wondering what would be the most interesting topic in my eyes. And my question is: "How would Web Analytics work without cookies?" Actually, last year, in September, I had read an interesting post by Laurie Sullivan, posted on the MediaPost.com site: "Where The … Continue reading Giving up cookies for a new internet… The third age of targeting is at your door.

Data entry in 2014: the vivid learnings of card punching

Pondering data quality checks? Considering elaborated, automated (and expensive) schemes? Let me suggest card punching. Punch cards? Depending on your age, you will either take me for a fool (meaning you know what a punch card is...), or simply ask "what is this?". Let's start with a short presentation. Basically, a punch card looks  like … Continue reading Data entry in 2014: the vivid learnings of card punching

Jumping over the data privacy fence to land on the optimization green grass? See the hurdle?

Back to school today. Back to work. But back to school also meant back to my desk and also to my usual good reads. I have namely read this post today, "Beyond Privacy Exploitation Lies Huge Opportunity For Personal Data Optimization" by Max Kalehoff on MediaPost, and I believe he is going a bit quick … Continue reading Jumping over the data privacy fence to land on the optimization green grass? See the hurdle?