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Trackers Abound On Amazon Fire TV And Roku; Omnicom Folds McDonald's Agency Into DDB

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I Spy  A study from Princeton University and the University of Chicago revealed the extent of ad tracking on OTT platforms like Roku and Amazon Fire TV, as well as the lack of controls to manage trackers. According to the study, 89% of channels... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // September 23rd, 2019 //
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Google Is Accused Of Leaking Data Through A GDPR Workaround – But What’s Really Going On Here?

By Allison Schiff and James Hercher Are Google’s cookie syncing capabilities a violation of consumer privacy or are they common industry practice? The answer to both could be “yes.” This new data debate, which fired up the ad tech industry, was sparked Wednesday when ad browser Brave’s chief policy officer, Johnny Ryan, asserted that Google’s... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // September 6th, 2019 //
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The Big Story: The Cookie Rumbles

Cookies: Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Well, that depends on who you ask, and the experts disagree. This week on The Big Story, the team examines both sides of the heated debate on the value, or lack thereof, of third-party cookie tracking. On one side of the fence, a study from May... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // September 5th, 2019 //
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With Cookies Nearly In The Rear View, Apple Cracks Down On Social Logins

Apple’s high-profile assault on third-party tracking continues. Starting with iOS 13 in the fall, users will be able to log in to apps and services using Apple Face ID without sharing other personal information. The new “Sign in with Apple” button, an unconcealed jab at Google and Facebook, is a way to sign in “without... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 3rd, 2019 //
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Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

Privacy advocates in the UK filed a series of complaints Thursday against Criteo, Tapad, Quantcast, Acxiom, Oracle, Equifax and Experian, questioning whether consumer profiling is legal under GDPR. Watchdog group Privacy International is claiming that the way many ad tech and data companies use data is in direct contravention to Europe’s new privacy law. The... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // November 8th, 2018 //
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Your Move, Apple: Facebook Intros First-Party Cookie Option To Power Its Tracking Pixel

The third-party cookie isn’t crumbling so much as imploding. In a Friday email to advertisers and publishers, Facebook said that on Oct. 24 it will start offering a first-party cookie option for the Facebook tracking pixel so that businesses can keep targeting their ads and measuring their campaigns without relying on third-party cookies. Facebook confirmed... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // October 5th, 2018 //
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Vendors Mull The Impact Of Apple’s iOS 10 Ad Tracking Limitations

Apple’s Limit Ad Tracking (LAT) feature is about to have a few more limits in iOS 10. Although Apple has allowed users to opt out of seeing interest-based advertising since iOS 6, vendors and advertisers could still use device IDs for functions like frequency capping, attribution, debugging and fraud detection. No longer. In iOS 10,... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // September 7th, 2016 //
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The FTC Seeks Clarity On Cross-Device Tracking – But Opt-Out Remains A Murky Mire

If policymakers, academics, privacy researchers and technologists have trouble making sense of the cross-device landscape, what chance does the average consumer have? Even the tech-savvy crowd that gathered in Washington, DC, for the cross-device workshop hosted by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday admitted they don’t always have their finger on the pulse, try as... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // November 16th, 2015 //
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Verizon Has Given The Zombie Cookie A Kill Switch

Verizon’s zombie cookie is now killable. In a development initially reported by The New York Times, the telco will allow its users to opt out from what the privacy community and a censorious media referred to as a “zombie cookie.” Previously, there was no way to opt out of Verizon’s persistent tracking mechanism. Users could opt out of having... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // January 30th, 2015 //
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Mobile DSP, Ad Net Or Agency? Vendor Overlap Sows Confusion

Mobile advertising is still emerging as a category but the vendor landscape is already crowded with platforms offering overlapping feature sets. As mobile ad networks, data management platforms, targeting firms and other technologies continue to pile up, drawing a clear line between these services and guarding against conflicts of interest is getting harder, according to... Continue reading »
by Judith Aquino // September 16th, 2013 //
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