Kenneth Olmstead

Kenneth Olmstead

Kenneth (Kenny) Olmstead is the Internet Security & Privacy Analyst at the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA). He helps research, analyze, write, and review technical content relating to OTA issues – identity, security, privacy, and data stewardship. Olmstead also helps with communications and engaging the OTA Committees on technical and techno-policy issues. Before joining the Internet Society, Olmstead spent more than a decade at the Pew Research Center studying how the Internet affects American life. 

Most Retailers Improve Their Email Signup and Security Practices in 2018

The setup of an online retailer's email marketing sign-up process matters. Choices that may seem trivial can be the difference between a consumer signing up for an email campaign or not. The same choices can also put retailers in the crosshairs of regulators as protections for consumers evolve. In November 2018, the Internet Society’s Online Trust…