Search Results for: privacy

I want to share this story: In a small, quiet town, Ethel, a 90-year-old woman with a spirit as indomitable as the passing of time, carried out her daily ritual. Each morning, she would make her way, despite a betraying hip, to the rusted mailbox at the end of her gravel driveway. The mailbox, more […]

Let’s face it, most fundraisers and the nonprofits they serve—along with virtually every other profession– are governed by motives beyond just the noble ones they claim. Nonprofits need to raise money to survive. Journalism is a business that needs to make money to survive. Political candidates need to raise money to campaign and win. Increasingly there […]

      Recently The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg, in her column questioned Where Has All The Left-wing Money Gone?  Citing “endless appeals, sometimes in bold all caps” of the seemingly endless the-sky-is-falling, guilt-tripping and flood of fundraising emails is a reason folks aren’t donating as much as they used to.      She […]

           The post-Labor Day tide of political email is on the rise and, if the past is prologue, will reach its high water mark a year from now then very slowly ebb  toward Election Day 2024.              This growing digital dog-pile, excreted by local, state and federal candidates and PACs, will […]

Among the lessons I’ve learned over my 60 years in this trade is that whatever the new fundraising technology it produces the same types of reoccurring problems and battles. Then after a suitable period of donor abuse, handwringing, name calling, litigation, legislative threats, and some governmental regulation things calm down and a sort of generally […]

With another batch of primary elections behind us and more still ahead…with the future of Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights hanging in the balance…with heartbreaking scourge of mass shootings at schools and shopping centers…there’s barely time to ponder the ultimate fate of life as we know it either by pandemic, famine, flood, locusts, or […]

Thank God It’s Friday. It’s been a horrible week in the real world: Massive evacuations and fear of Taliban retaliation in Afghanistan… historically massive and destructive wild fires in the West… reactionary and racist anti-democracy, voter suppression legislation enacted in Texas… tacit approval by the U.S. Supreme Court of a contrived, mean and vicious law […]

Great news for privacy lovers.  More specifically, great news for Apple iPhone and iPad users who received a new privacy feature on Monday called App Tracking Transparency (ATT). This new feature is a significant step for user privacy because it gives Apple users more control over their mobile phone app data and how it’s used […]

Visions of Grandma Craver appeared after I received a note from Nick alerting me to a project at Princeton University analyzing political emails. Grandma Craver despised hypocrites.  No matter whether their hypocrisy was of the religious, moral, or political variety she simply labeled them all with the disdainful phrase: “Everyone who talks about heaven ain’t […]

Looking back at the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with nearly 2 years of hindsight, it seems that almost everyone went crazy on the issue of consent and that pendulum is only now just starting to swing back to sanity. What was lost in the scramble and panic over consent was any […]