Data Privacy Roundup

But publishers have more power than they think to authenticate their audiences – they’ve just gotta learn how to wield it.

Google released a proposal for a Chrome feature called script blocking as part of a broader effort to mitigate API misuse for broader reidentification. In short: It’s a crackdown on fingerprinting in Incognito mode.

Despite all the cookie drama, companies haven’t completely abandoned the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, and BU marketing professor Garrett Johnson has the receipts to prove it.

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.