Data Privacy Roundup

There’s a reason ad tech is no longer in a position to self regulate. Somewhere along the way, companies forgot to respect their consumers and so regulators stepped in.

Google isn’t a regulator. From an attorney’s point of view, its decrees don’t carry the force of law, and that’s what lawyers are concerned with: the law.

You know that old saw about how regulators aren’t technical and don’t understand how online advertising works? Yeah, that’s not a thing anymore.

Privacy lawyers and ad tech folks often don’t speak the same language. But at least now they’ve got an acronym in common: MSCA.

Why should establishing consumer trust be a differentiator – and wouldn’t it be great if that was just every company’s MO?

The assumption often is that lawyers are the ultimate party poopers who want to stop innovative product people from doing what they do best. But that’s not the case at all.

What’s in the tea leaves for the FTC’s new chair Andrew Ferguson, who took over in January? Kyle Kessler, a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, weighs in.

If an alternative identifier is present in the bidstream, and no one transacts on it, does it make a sound? The availability of alt IDs in open auctions has steadily increased, but demand has yet to catch up with supply.

Google just shared a teeny tiny bit more info about its planned consent mechanism for Chrome, which will be “a one-time global prompt.” Pause for amazed silence (lol).

To commemorate Data Privacy Day on Jan. 28, my gift to you is an update on something I think is about to get a lot more attention: universal opt-out mechanisms.