Tag: gdpr

Tech has left the building

By Martin Recke

Tech is no longer a topic that's pretty much limited to technologists. Quite the contrary, the broader public is now front and centre about all things digital.
A cathartic moment for the digital industry

By Martin Recke

The digital industry has a long-standing history of neglecting data protection and user privacy. GDPR is a kind of collective punishment for an industry that still believes to be entitled to all kinds of data usage and misusage.
The difference between good digital marketing and spam is simply human

By Adam Tinworth

Advertising isn't dead - but crappy digital marketing may well be. If you want to swell well online, don't forget the human in the digital.
How Decentralisation Could Fix Digital

By Martin Recke

On top of a decentralised infrastructure, centralised control achieved a major comeback. Network effects and economies of scale are both strong drivers towards a digital platform economy dominated by only a few players. Digital is broken. Can decentralisation fix it?
Do we want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?

By Martin Recke

For quite a while, we took for granted that we, of course, are part of the solution just by being digital, since digital was perceived to be good in itself, and hence digitisation equals progress. In 2018, it should be obvious that this is no longer the case.