GDPR fun

For those who had enough of GDPR tutorials and feel they have reached a good level of compliance, it's time to enjoy the fun part now. I've listed under this post the funniest material I could find online, inspired by GDPR.

Exclude personal data from your web analytics

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data or personal data (e.g. email addresses, social security numbers etc.) is a complete nightmare for web analysts. Every web analytics platform is very clear on this matter, that their systems are not designed to store PII data. Google analytics also states in the service’s terms, that any GA account found storing PII data will be deleted by their administrator. If you end up having your account deleted, the chances of bringing it back online are very slim. Adobe Analytics will also advice its users against storing personal data on their servers. Most marketers don’t need...

How will GDPR affect your web analytics

After going through several white papers, discussions and online articles I will try to cover the most important changes for online analytics which will come with EU’s new data protection rule (GDPR). This is an upgrade to EU’s ePrivacy data law (aka ICO cookie law) that will come into effect on May 25th 2018. Most of digital analytics vendors have already started presenting solutions that you could use to be compliant with this new regulation, but it’s sure that as we get closer to spring 2018  a lot of things will change on how websites operate. What is GDPR? GDPR...