IPG grabs Acxiom marketing unit in $2.3bn mega deal
IPG, the marketing services group behind McCann Worldwide, Lowe and FCB, has swooped on Acxiom’s marketing services business, shelling out…
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‘Stark warning’ issued as ICO prosecutes CCTV firm
Companies which operate CCTV have been sent a “stark warning” by the successful prosecution of a Telford business which has…
Facebook admits sharing user data with over 60 brands
If the Data Analytica scandal “let the genie out of the bottle” over Facebook’s data sharing strategy, fresh evidence to…
Boring data? Forget it, it’s even driving Cannes’ agenda
On the surface, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and GDPR may not be natural bedfellows but there was…
Ticketmaster breach: ‘We’ve complied fully with GDPR’
As if paying through the nose for concert tickets is not bad enough, now 40,000 Ticketmaster customers are facing the…
Alchemetrics hires Worboys to lead expansion strategy
Alchemetrics has brought in former Wunderman and Starcount chief Caroline Worboys as non-executive chair to drive the data specialist’s ambitious…
Data regulators busy, busy, busy now GDPR is in force
Some so-called experts might have poo-pooed it but data regulators across the EU have confirmed a sharp rise in their…
Over-reliance on legacy systems putting firms in peril
The scale of the task facing companies trying to get hold of their customer data has been exposed by a…
Not us guv…Facebook says no-one in EU was hit by CA
Facebook’s defiance in the face of huge political and regulatory pressure shows no signs of waning after two of the…
Bosses finger youngsters for data loss but are guilty too
Oh the folly of youth; more than a third of senior executives believe that younger employees are the “main culprits”…