Just before the new Swiss Data Protection Act came into force, we held the first edition of our webinar series “Wer hat Recht?”. In our new webinar series, Dr. Evelyn Thar (CEO of Advance Metrics) and Caroline Danner (Managing Director of ONLAW) discuss legal issues related to online marketing, analytics …
Companies risk losing access to valuable digital data due to the technical precautions of many browsers (for example Safari and Firefox default cookie blocking) as well as the explicit lack of consent from users. This loss of data has been a concern for many years and is accelerating due to …
The new Swiss Data Protection Act comes into force on the 1st of September without any further transition period. This means that all companies in Switzerland must be ready to comply with the new requirements by September 1st. The new Swiss data protection law provides clear guidelines on how personal …
If you are actively involved in online marketing and web analytics in Switzerland, you should certainly be preparing for the new Swiss data protection law, which will come into effect in September 2023. As a reminder of this important date, we have summarized the most important information for you: The …
In our webinar together with JENTIS, we explained how companies can use server-side tracking to set up their analytics and marketing automation software in a privacy-compliant way to comply with European GDPR and the new Swiss Data Protection Act. Our speakers from JENTIS and Advanced Metrics provided valuable insights on …
Three Factors Why Third-Party Data Collection Has Been Cut Governments have reacted to the increasing value of personal data and to the growing concern of citizens about how their personal information is being used. Laws and regulations for data protection have been issued to give back control to users over …
Google Analytics has been under a lot of criticism in recent months. Several data protection authorities such as the Austrian, French, Dutch, Italian and Danish have now classified Google Analytics as non-compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We explain what this means and whether Google Analytics can …
What is the Facebook Conversions API? Meta has developed the new to share data directly from their server, rather than through a browser. In the past, tracking users was primarily accomplished through the Facebook Pixel. This is a snippet of code programmed into your website. The problem is this …
If you are actively involved in online marketing in Switzerland, this upcoming year will bring some major changes. You should keep these two events saved in your calendars: July 1st 2023: Google will replace Universal Analytics with Google Analytics 4. September 1st 2023 the new Swiss Data Protection Act comes …
What is the challenge with Online Marketing at the moment? The data privacy regulations have become a lot stricter after scandals like Cambridge Analytica where Facebook data was used without consent for political advertising. Currently most platforms like Facebook, Google or LinkedIn still depend on a cookie to follow users …
We have already reported that in recent weeks several countries in the EU have deemed Google Analytics to be not privacy compliant. Since Google Analytics is used on over 50% of websites worldwide, this action by data protection authorities in the EU has caused a great deal of uncertainty among …
Companies are increasingly seeking better insights by using web data sources that offer lots of opportunities. Web data can be used to gain new insights that can help increase efficiency and revenue. Internally generated information can have gaps, and companies are increasingly moving to incorporate new, non-traditional sources of data …
