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My Take: Privacy? What Privacy?
Gary Lemke, Chief Customer Advocate   (June 11, 2012)
 
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Equifax CIO Dave Webb was recently quoted as saying, "We know more about you than you would care for us to know." I'm not sure how well I will sleep tonight. Maybe I should ask Mr. Webb since he knows so much about me.
 
In CRM circles these days, the race is on to collect, aggregate, and analyze customer data. Is that customer intimacy in order to anticipate needs or an invasion of privacy? Where's the line?
 
John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com, which offers consumers credit scores, identity protection and credit-monitoring services offers, "The majority of consumers have no clue about the breadth of the information about them, where their information is residing and who has access to it."
 
Care to read more startling statements? Check out CIO Magazine's Big Data Means Big Brother to help figure out your customer's tolerance for mining their data.
 
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