Why Companies Should Compete On Privacy

The CMO Survey reports that 40 percent of companies use customer information collected online for targeting purposes and 88.5 percent of chief marketing officers expect this practice to increase over time. At the same time, CMOs have very low levels of concern about how the use of online customer data infringes upon privacy. Specifically, when asked, "How worried are you that this use of online customer data could raise questions about privacy?" on a scale where 1=not at all worried and 7=is ver...