Data Privacy Roundup

The discovery process in the lead-up to Google’s ad tech antitrust trial has unearthed nuggets of information that aren’t directly related to the case, yet are no less fascinating.

There’s a decent amount of overlap between many US state privacy laws – but there are also many significant differences. Take the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act.

Not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Google is keeping third-party cookies in Chrome, and here’s what ad tech Twitter (X, whatever), has to say about it.

Sophia Cao, RTB House’s newly appointed director of private advertising advocacy, knows how to play nice in the sandbox – because, well, she used to work there.

Musings on the Chrome Privacy Sandbox consent pop-up after experiencing one in the wild in Europe. Do people know what they’re opting into?

Class-action attorney Jay Barnes makes the case for why the US **doesn’t** need to pass a dedicated federal data privacy law.

Being able to share information about a group of people without compromising any individual person’s privacy kinda sounds like a form of wizardry. But it’s not. It’s just math.

Rather than directly managing risk and regulatory compliance as a traditional chief privacy would do, Ron De Jesus is like a liaison between Transcend and the CPO community.

Google has said publicly that it will eventually (“soon”) adopt a national approach to privacy compliance in the US. That’s a big deal – but only if Google actually does it.