The California Consumer Privacy Act Add to Pressure for a New National Standard

First there was the Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL), which went into effect in 2014. Then there was the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in 2018. Now, after years of major corporate data breaches and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, stronger privacy and data protection laws are taking hold…
Email Deliverability Quarterly: Return Path Acquired, CCPA Update, Yahoo-AOL Merged, and More

Email deliverability is constantly changing, as inbox providers adjust their filtering algorithms, blacklists tweak their listing criteria, and consumers evolve their definition of spam. That’s why even the best email marketing programs suffer deliverability problems sometimes. To help you avoid trouble, the deliverability practice at Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting (OMCC) shares the…
Chief Marketer: Why GDPR Can Improve Your Email ROI

“GDPR is not the cataclysm everyone was expecting,” I told Beth Negus of Chief Marketer for this article. 60% of brands that are complying with GDPR saw their email lists shrink by less than 10%, according to a Litmus poll. And our whitepaper on email marketing’s ROI also found that brands operating…
The California Consumer Privacy Act: What Marketers Need to Know

Driven by the continued rise in consumer data breaches and growing privacy concerns, the State of California has passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The law will significantly strengthen privacy in the U.S. when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The law is part of a global trend toward…
Email List Validation: 9 Expert Marketers Share Their Thoughts on the GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on May 25. To explore the issues around GDPR, Email List Validation reached out to nine experts, including me. Together, we address: The ambiguities in the law The opportunity it presents, which is an issue I discussed with Emarsys recently The need to be…