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Consent

A consent, in digital marketing, means the agreement of a data subject for the storage and processing of their personal data. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Various bits of information that, if merged, could lead to identifying a particular person, constitute personal data.

Under the EU Data Protection Regulation GDPR ) organizations must obtain consent to collect and process such information.

The State of GDPR Consent

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A Practical Guide to Acquiring Consent in the Age of GDPR

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More about consent on the Piwik PRO blog:

  • Privacy by design in practice: How “just enough” data beats “just in case” collection

    While collecting more data “just in case” feels safer, according to Matt Gershoff, it’s also one of the biggest sources of unnecessary compliance risk, analytical noise, and wasted organizational resources in the analytics industry today. His approach of “just enough” data collection is more intentional, more aligned with privacy regulation, and often more analytically effective.

  • 4 ways to make your analytics HIPAA-compliant: Implementation guide

    Healthcare organizations have four main approaches to achieving HIPAA-compliant analytics. Each has different trade-offs in cost, technical complexity, and analytics capabilities. This guide compares all four implementation methods – from using Google Analytics with workarounds to deploying fully HIPAA-compliant analytics platforms – so you can choose the right approach for your organization’s needs and resources.

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