Privacy

Google and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority continue their seemingly never-ending colloquy on Chrome, competition and cookies.

There’s been plenty of mudslinging in and around the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. But the Protected Audiences API (PAAPI) maybe ain’t so bad, according to researchers at Boston University.

Has the Federal Trade Commission been overstepping its bounds? Yes, according to newly appointed Republican FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak.

The FTC’s latest staff report has strong message for social media and streaming video platforms: Stop engaging in the “vast surveillance” of consumers.

The Connected Commerce Council (CCC), a lobbying organization based in Washington, DC, hosted a virtual press conference to spotlight small businesses and their concerns with the APRA, the latest attempt at setting national privacy standards.

If Google were to shut off third-party cookies today and implement the current version of the Privacy Sandbox, publishers would see their ad revenue on Chrome tank by around 60% on average.

Two years after leaving Meta to launch their own privacy-focused ad measurement startup in 2022, Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood have sold their company to Mozilla.

The co-founders of a new privacy tech startup called Precise.ai are two names you’ll probably recognize: Adam Helfgott and Jesse Redniss.

SSP, meet PET. TrustX has been spun out of Digital Content Next and is now housed within a newly formed company called Symitri, which is developing privacy-enhancing technologies for programmatic advertising.

Around this time last year, there were only a handful of companies testing the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Now, according to Google, there are hundreds.