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Privacy as a Revenue Driver: 6 Ways Privacy Work Creates Business Value operations planning privacy risk diversification Feb 05, 2026

Your approach to privacy isn't just a compliance obligation. It's a strategic business asset. When approached as product management rather than legal necessity, privacy work yields measurable gains ac...

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Building a Privacy Working Group: A Cross-Functional Framework operations planning privacy Jan 31, 2026

How to make privacy everyone's responsibility and not just Legal's problem

Privacy can't be solved by your legal team alone. It requires coordination across product, media, creative, and operations

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To AI or Not to AI: Assessing Risk and Opportunity Cost ai operations planning privacy Jan 02, 2026

There’s a pattern I see every time a new technology enters the mainstream.

The excitement is real. The efficiency gains look obvious. And the risks feel abstract — until they’re not.

The excitement ...

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Privacy Is Not a Tool Problem: Why Governance Matters More Than Platforms consent consumer data operations planning tech stack Jan 02, 2026

When privacy concerns surface, the instinct is often to look for a tool to resolve the challenge at-hand.

A consent banner.
A platform upgrade.
A new setting that promises to “solve” the issue.

Tool...

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The Case for Valuing Qualitative Data content strategy operations planning preference management Nov 06, 2023

What we've been trained as marketers to believe is that quantitative data always prevails over qualitative data -- that what people say they care about is different than what they demonstrate they car...

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What to Consider When You're Considering Preference Management operations planning preference management Aug 21, 2023

Preference management -- or the practice of letting your audiences decide how they want to engage with you -- is great. And oftentimes, it provides a vehicle that allows you to opt people down from a ...

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The Operational Audit You Should Run At Least 1x Annually contracts operations planning tech stack Aug 06, 2023

The word audit gives everyone the shakes. But audits are a great thing that shouldn't be feared, especially if you're doing your proper due diligence of creating a work culture in which it's okay to r...

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Unstick Your Consent Management Processes consent consumer data operations planning preference management state legislation May 15, 2023

New state data privacy laws in the U.S. have much in common with the EU's GDPR legislation, which went into effect in 2018. Which is good news, in that it gives those of us serving primarily U.S. cons...

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What's Your Ops Plan for State Privacy Laws? operations planning privacy state legislation Dec 14, 2022

In 2023, five states will put new privacy legislation into effect, giving residents of CA, UT, CO, VA, and CT new ownership of their data footprint. 

Most important for you to understand is: Legislat...

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