Data Ethics

In marketing, data reveals a lot about your audience and business performance. That’s why marketers love collecting data and, sometimes, too much of it. Gathering and using data can be a double-edged sword. If you don’t take it seriously, you can break your customers’ trust and put them at risk. ...

Considering the marketing timeline, data ethics is still a relatively new concept. Broadly speaking, marketing data ethics refers to the ethical considerations that need to be taken into account when collecting, using, and sharing data. This can include everything from ensuring that data is collected fairly and responsibly to protecting people’s privacy to being transparent ...

Marketers who take user privacy and data ethics seriously are faced with a paradox. On one hand, we all understand the benefits we can gain by tracking user behavior on and off our websites. On the other hand, we’re growing increasingly conscious of the questionable tracking and targeting practices that are plaguing the marketing industry. ...