Perhaps the greatest challenge for data collectors and marketers in the coming year will be complying with the regulations concerning the collection and use of consumer data. After years of mega-breaches of internet websites, consumers have awakened to the amount of private information that was collected and distributed without knowledge. In the first six months...Read More

Image Credit:  Titima Ongkantong / Shutterstock.com The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which has been in place since January 2020, is now being enforced. As of July 1, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has promised strict enforcement from day one. California has become the first state in the Union to implement controls on companies’ consumer...Read More

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is now in effect. Modeled after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California has become the first state in the Union to implement controls on companies’ consumer data handling practices.  Like most new bureaucratic regulation roll-outs, last minute amendments and changes to regulations has resulted in half of...Read More

Image credit David MG / Shutterstock.com While many of us, either personally or professionally, can complain about our experiences in 2018, the major social media platforms, particularly Facebook, had a particularly bad year. Once the seemingly runaway, no goal too high, darling of social media fans of all ages, Facebook’s executives are slinking to the...Read More

The event wasn’t really anything new. Like the occurrence of hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, wild fires and other major natural calamities, data breaches come around from time to time almost as naturally and expected as Mother Nature’s furious punishments.  Differentiated from one another by a numeric sliding scale that measure their severity and the...Read More

The old adage goes something like; “How do you eat an elephant?”  Answer.  “While it appears to be unconcerned or is distracted, nibble away one little bit at a time and before it notices – too late, all gone!”  With recent revelations about government bureaucracies and organizations collecting massive amounts of data and personal information...Read More

Junction Creative Solutions (Junction) announces its support of the Atlanta Technology Summit, featuring C-suite executives from some of the most respected companies, to be held on Friday, July 22nd, at the Atlanta Marriott Norcross Hotel. The 2011 Cloud Summit Series, with events in Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, and New York, is addressing how “the Cloud” is...Read More