First, in legalese: The second set of modifications to the proposed regulations promulgated by the California attorney general’s office for the California Consumer Privacy Act was released late Wednesday afternoon. Now, in English: The third version of the AG’s draft regs just dropped and it’s time to get out your highlighters. This latest draft incorporates […]
It’s nearly le denouement pour le cookie consentement en France. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (the CNIL), France’s data protection authority, is on the cusp of finalizing its updated consent guidelines for cookies and other trackers – and the stakes are high. “The question is not whether consent is applicable – of course […]
Guess you can’t please everyone. Comments on the second draft of the California attorney general’s implementation regs for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are rolling in, and no one seems all that satisfied. Privacy advocates, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, think the California attorney general is watering down the law, while ad industry […]
Big tech is all in on differential privacy. It’s a foundational concept within Google’s Privacy Sandbox; Apple applies it to the study of diagnostic device, health and web browsing data; and, just last week, Facebook used differential privacy to protect a trove of data it made available to researchers analyzing the effect of sharing misinformation […]
The California attorney general’s office has released the second draft of its implementation regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act. The updated regs, published late Friday, take into consideration feedback received during a 45-day comment period that ended in December. The AG is accepting comments on the amended proposed regulations until Feb. 25 (extended from […]
The marketing industry loves to highlight case studies of success. But it’s possible to learn just as much if not more from failure. Marketing Fail is a new series from AdExchanger exploring the mistakes, missteps, gaffes and in some cases downright bad behavior of the marketing industry. This is the first installment. What must’ve seemed […]
There’s not enough awareness that compliance can’t be a cut-and-paste job when it comes to kids. Just because you’re compliant with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), doesn’t mean you’re compliant with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Plus, US states are coming out with their own […]
By 2022, third-party cookies will be obsolete in Chrome. But there’s a more pressing deadline looming that advertisers need to prepare for: SameSite. Beginning on Feb. 4, Chrome will stop supporting cross-site third-party cookie sharing by default. Third-party cookies that aren’t secure – as in, accessed over HTTPS – and also properly labeled using the […]
Grindr and a handful of other dating apps are getting publicly pummeled for sharing personal user data, including location data and sexual preferences, with third-party companies. But Grindr, OKCupid, Tinder and others are not alone. The practice is pervasive among every type of app. A report released Tuesday by the Norwegian Consumer Council, an Oslo-based […]
Google plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022. What will replace them? The answer lies in Google’s Privacy Sandbox, a proposed set of web standards designed to protect privacy while still giving advertisers the ability to target and measure campaigns. In other words, the standards are web browser APIs that will eventually serve as […]
All eyes are on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect on Jan. 1. But get ready for new privacy bills across the country as state legislatures come back into session throughout January and early February. On Monday, the first day of Washington state’s 2020 legislative session, state House Rep. Norma Smith, […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) officially took effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and now businesses must hustle to comply as a new clock begins to tick. CCPA enforcement starts on July 1. Here’s what you need to know to get up to speed: CCPA basics CCPA is for now the most stringent privacy regulation […]
If 2018 was the year of GDPR and 2019 was the year of CCPA-related anxiety, 2020 will be the year the digital advertising industry is forced to mature rather than just talk about it. The threat of severe penalties for noncompliance combined with inconsistent legal guidelines (and a lack of federal privacy legislation in the United […]
The future of RTB is “in the balance,” the United Kingdom’s data protection authority said Friday. In a blog post, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reiterated its stance that certain aspects of real-time bidding could be illegal under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – and that the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) […]
Content creators on YouTube are freaking out. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 175,000 comments in response to a call for feedback on potential changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), an abundance of which came from YouTube creators worried that their ad-supported livelihoods are about to go up in smoke. […]
Is Google planning its own version of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention? Never say never. Google is less than two months away from instituting a policy change within the next iteration of Chrome that will severely limit cross-site cookie sharing, and most ad tech companies seem blithely unaware. Starting Feb. 4, and to coincide with the […]
Regular Californians and business owners are uneasy about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), based on the feedback submitted to the California attorney general’s office on the AG’s implementation regs. The deadline to turn in comments to the AG’s office was Friday, Dec.6, which followed a 45-day public comment period. Although lawyers and trade associations […]
A federal privacy law is still a blip on the horizon. But listening to members of the Senate Commerce Committee dig into the details on legislative proposals to protect consumer data privacy at a hearing on the topic held Wednesday morning, you wouldn’t be laughed out of a room if you said that a bipartisan […]
Ad industry, you can get off your tenterhooks: Google is going to adopt the IAB Tech Lab’s technical specs for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The specs, which create a US privacy string not dissimilar to the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by IAB Europe in the run up to GDPR, […]
Compliance tools are coming out of the woodwork with less than a month to go until the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on Jan. 1. The latest is a consent management platform from LiveRamp released on Wednesday, which the data onboarding company built using technology it acquired from Europe-based CMP Faktor in […]
Democratic lawmakers took another step on the long march toward federal privacy legislation on Tuesday with a new Senate bill that aims to serve as a framework for a national law. The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) would limit how consumer data is collected, establish a set of consumer data rights and beef up […]
Self-reg is revving up in the lead-up to the CCPA effective date on Jan. 1. The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) said Monday that it’s finalizing mechanisms that would allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal information as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The tools aren’t available to use […]
Google will allow sites and apps to disable personalized ad serving across its ad products to help partners comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA goes into effect in less than six weeks. Here’s how it works: Advertisers and publishers will be able to restrict how data is processed through Google Ads, […]
The IAB Tech Lab released the first version of technical specs on Monday that publishers and ad tech companies can use to start complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) while transacting via real-time bidding. The Interactive Advertising Bureau sought public comments for a draft of the compliance framework over a two-week period from […]
Microsoft is planning to apply the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) across the entirety of its business and customer base in the United States. Why? Because Congress can’t get its act together (literally). In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft decried the fact that there’s been no serious movement to draft bipartisan federal privacy legislation. […]
The bad news: Lawyers and chief privacy officers think it’s “impossible” to fully comply with certain aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The good news: Everyone’s pretty much in the same boat, and the California attorney general’s office (probably) isn’t looking to put companies that do their due diligence out of business, said […]
Two California House Democrats are taking a stab at federal privacy legislation with a bill that, if passed, would be more exacting than the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). The Online Privacy Act of 2019 (HR 4978) was introduced on Tuesday by Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren of California, who both represent parts […]
Ghostery aims to help users block the trackers it has been helping them monitor… for a price. The company has developed a VPN and blocking tool that will shut down trackers embedded in desktop applications. The tools, which entered an invite-only beta on Thursday, will be grouped together under the name Ghostery Midnight and sold […]
Privacy regulations have the potential to consolidate market share among large technology platforms. Aka, when publishers reduce the number of ad tech, audience measurement and other web technology vendors they work with, Google and Facebook win, according to new academic research examining the unintended consequences of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The skittishness with […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act wants to make opting out of data collection as easy as clicking a button. But for publishers, advertisers and ad tech companies, it’s not so simple. On Tuesday, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the IAB Tech Lab released the first draft of a compliance framework to help companies handle the […]
