Earlier this week, AdExchanger asked FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya during his keynote at the NAD’s conference on advertising law in Washington, DC, why the commission decided to sue Kochava rather than any other ad tech company with a location data business. And, according to Bedoya, Kochava was singled out for a reason.
Although the Federal Trade Commission has historically been a fan of the ad industry governing itself, it’s been making moves to signal that the commission might start to reject self-regulatory practices, at least on the privacy front.
Oracle is big. Huge. But, the fact is, Oracle Data Cloud (what is now Oracle Advertising) doesn’t have and has never had 5 billion people in its ID Graph, regardless of Larry Ellison’s flair for the dramatic.
The US is long overdue for a federal privacy law, but the American Data Privacy and Protection Act might not be it. Considering the midterms are two months away, it’s unlikely we’ll see a full vote on the House floor before the election. And so we asked the experts: If the ADPPA doesn’t pass soon, what happens next?
The FTC sued Kochava on Monday for allegedly selling visitation data tied to abortion clinics, mental health facilities, places of worship, domestic abuse shelters and other sensitive locations.
TFW when you brag about the size of your graph on stage at an industry event, then it’s used as evidence against you. Oracle was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Friday accusing the company of “a deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence.”
We’re about to see a lot more enforcement against dark patterns from the Federal Trade Commission and on a state level. Holding companies to account for using deceptive language that pushes people into sharing their data has largely fallen to the FTC, but now, US privacy laws are starting to mention dark patterns too.
Procrastinators are being given a gift (of sorts): Google is postponing its deadline for the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome by a year, until the second half of 2024.
There was no mention of fingerprinting (or any allusions to a forthcoming crackdown on the practice) during the kickoff keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, as many expected – but that doesn’t mean enforcement isn’t coming at some point soon … ish.
The IAB Tech Lab announced its Global Privacy Platform (GPP), a framework to standardize the sharing of consent signals so companies can more easily comply with global privacy regulations. “It’s a protocol for streamlining and managing cross-jurisdictional privacy compliance,” said IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur – which is why the platform will be ready to incorporate new consent strings within the framework as they emerge.
Even the experts at companies whose future depends on explaining the value exchange of personalized advertising to consumers struggle to make a convincing argument. Part of the problem is that the ad industry’s MO has been to “overcomplicate” matters, said Lauren Wetzel, chief operating officer at InfoSum, speaking at LUMA’s Digital Media Summit earlier this week.
Google is launching a new preference center so people can more easily manage their privacy settings, opt out of personalized advertising and specify whether they want to see fewer (or more, ha) ads on a given topic.
The internet needs child-safety guardrails, but lawmakers are hawking bills that could distract from the danger of widespread data collection and advertising targeted at children. The EARN IT Act is one of them. It purports to eliminate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, but privacy advocates say it’s unlikely to do so because its real function is just to hobble Big Tech.
The concepts underpinning Google’s newly announced Android Privacy Sandbox are still only that – concepts. Google will gather feedback from the industry before releasing fleshed-out versions for initial developer testing coming soon, followed by a formal beta at the end of this year. But as sketchy as the specifics are at the moment, it’s clear there […]
The sandbox saga continues. The people whose complaint first triggered the UK CMA’s now-settled investigation over antitrust concerns about the Chrome Privacy Sandbox are feeling pretty skeptical about whether Google will actually stick to its commitments when it comes to Android.
Graham Mudd, Meta’s VP of product marketing for ads and business products, is leaving the company to start his own PET project – literally. Mudd, whose last day at Meta will be in early March, is working on launching a startup focused on building privacy-enhancing technologies.
Anyone who put “Google makes its first subtle move to nix the Android Ad ID” on their 2022 bingo card gets a cookie. Because, on Wednesday, Google finally did it. The Privacy Sandbox is coming to Android, folks.
Over the course of less than 24 hours last week, the UK’s competition authority provisionally closed its investigation into the Chrome Privacy Sandbox and, separately, a coalition of top European publishers filed an antitrust complaint in the EU accusing Google of anticompetitive digital advertising practices.
What does it mean, in practice, to take a privacy-first approach to addressability? Respecting the consumer, of course. But it also means living in “data privacy hell.”
First there were birds, and now there are PETs. On Monday, the IAB Tech Lab took the wraps off a new working group focused on developing standards and best practices for deploying PETs, or “privacy-enhancing technologies.” The first meeting is on March 4.
Google’s Topics API was, well, a very hot topic last week. Ad tech companies and publishers jumped all over the proposal after it was announced, many with critical takes on the kinks that need to be worked out.
You’ve probably heard the term “surveillance advertising” – used with increasing frequency – in reference to companies with an Orwellian agenda to keep tabs on you at all times. See the recently introduced Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. Minus the hyperbole, surveillance advertising is the practice of serving ads to individuals based on their personal information. But […]
The Privacy Sandbox is bursting with news this week. On Thursday, Google shared a slightly more concrete testing timeline for its FLEDGE and Core Attribution reporting API. Two days before, on Tuesday, Google announced the Topics API, a new proposal for post-cookie interest-based advertising that now replaces FLoC. Google, which teased earlier this week that […]
On Tuesday, just a few days after filing a motion to dismiss the state AG-led antitrust lawsuit against its advertising business, Google announced Topics, a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox that replaces the FLoC API, which is being sent to bird heaven.
In September, the California Privacy Protection Agency made a call for feedback on new and outstanding issues not addressed by existing implementation regulations for CCPA, and the comments are in. One of the most hotly debated issues had to do with consent interfaces.
“Surveillance” is a loaded term, but it’s on the lips of regulators who are working to restrict targeted advertising online on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act in the US to the Digital Services Act in Europe.
It’s better to ask for permission than forgiveness. That’s the philosophy behind Caden, a privacy startup that launched on Thursday with $3.4 million in pre-seed funding from a roster of well-known investors, including Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang, MediaLink Vice Chairman Wenda Harris Millard and Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital.
It’s time to stop talking and start doing. That’s the raison d’être, in a nutshell, behind a new community group – the Private Advertising Technology Community Group – housed within the World Wide Web Consortium.
The word of the year, at least according to Collins English Dictionary, is “NFT.” Putting aside the fact that NFT is an acronym and not a word, consider a proposal that the word of the year for 2021 be “consent.”
Nothing in ad tech is ever easy. Despite previously signaling interest in serving as an administrator for Unified ID 2.0 earlier this year, the IAB Tech Lab is still on the fence about taking on this role for the open-source initiative to replace third-party cookies with email-based IDs.
