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EU hits Meta with $414m fine over advertising practices

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Meta’s offense, the board concluded, was to incorporate user consent to use data for targeted advertising purposes within its terms of service, effectively forcing anyone using Facebook or Instagram, for example, to give up their data as a condition of using the platform. Why we care. Of course, the U.S. What happens next.

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EU & UK GDPR: 5 things you must know about email consent

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Get consent from a positive opt-in, not pre-ticked boxes. For consent to be valid under GDPR, a customer must actively confirm their consent, such as ticking an unchecked opt-in box. In the screenshot above, we show an example of how we use unchecked, opt-in boxes at Litmus to get consent.

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Third-Party Lead Generation and GDPR Compliance

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2. Create and centralize opt-in language for easy, consistent distribution. Create and centralize opt-in language for easy, consistent distribution. Step two is to tackle opt-in language. Less understood, though, are the ways in which the GDPR affects B2B marketers’ third-party lead generation campaigns.

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Data Privacy Terminology 101

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In this glossary, we’ll help you build your data privacy IQ by explaining some of the most common terms and applications. In other cases, consent can be assumed or inferred based on a person’s action or even based on a person’s inaction (for example, in the case of “opt-out consent”). Opt In/Opt Out.

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HubSpot’s September 2023 releases: The manager’s guide

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Other types of reporting visualizations, such as bar charts or pie charts, are not as effective when comparing if the data is above or below your goal, such as finding out “How close are we to achieving our monthly renewals target? See the key features in this video.

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EU authorities ban Meta from using personal data for advertising

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Ad-free subscription On Monday, Meta announced it was rolling out ad-free subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in Europe and putting a “temporary” ban on ads to those under 18. “Meta has been found … to not have demonstrated compliance with the orders imposed at the end of last year,” EDPB Chair Anu Talus said in a statement. “It

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Data Privacy Terminology 101

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In this glossary, we’ll help you build your data privacy IQ by explaining some of the most common terms and applications. In other cases, consent can be assumed or inferred based on a person’s action or even based on a person’s inaction (for example, in the case of “opt-out consent”).

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