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Ad Tech Vets Help Sharpen Ad Tech Regs; New Antitrust Bills Are Up In Congress

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Feed The Hand That Bites You Advertising insiders have become expert witnesses, so to speak, in antitrust battles with Big Tech.  There’s Tom Chavez, who co-founded and sold ad tech startups to Microsoft and Salesforce. He now operates a venture fund that invests in... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // January 21st, 2022 //
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Georgia Runoff Drives Nearly $500 Million In Ad Buys; What Will Happen To Section 230?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Runaway Runoffs With the control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, all eyes were on Georgia leading up to the runoff elections on Jan. 5 –and where there are eyes, ad dollars follow. Axios reports that the two Georgia Senate runoff races... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // January 6th, 2021 //
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House Antitrust Report Highlights Unequal Power Dynamics At The W3C

The House’s antitrust report on big tech, released last week, described the lopsided power dynamic at the W3C, where several “market participants” interviewed by the subcommittee said that they felt “bullied” by Google. The report claims that Google uses Chrome’s dominance in the browser market to “effectively set standards for the industry.” First, Chrome has... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // October 12th, 2020 //
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The Big Story: Mr. Google Goes To Washington

We’ve been talking so much these days about Google and identity that we’ve neglected getting into the other big Google story: antitrust. Congress dragged Google back to Washington again this week (virtually, at least) to examine about how its business impacts the competition. And this time, reports AdExchanger senior editor Allison Schiff, the senators were... Continue reading »
by Ryan Joe // September 17th, 2020 //
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Lawmakers Call RTB An Unfair And Deceptive Business Practice In Letter To The FTC

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the practice of real-time bidding. (Read the letter here.) In a letter addressed to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons on Friday, the group, led by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., decries what it calls a “widespread privacy violations by companies... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // August 4th, 2020 //
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Trade Groups Say IOS 14 Not Compatible With GDPR; Pinterest Under SEO Scrutiny

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple Vs. … GDPR? Are the privacy-focused changes for the release of Apple’s iOS 14 in September compatible with the GDPR? Not according to a coalition of European advertising and publisher trade organizations, including IAB Europe and News Media Europe. In a letter to... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // July 6th, 2020 //
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Mr. O’Kelley Goes To Washington, Calls For a Breakup Of Google

The programmatic advertising ecosystem is a mess – even its main architect agrees. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Brian O’Kelley, founder and former CEO of AT&T-owned AppNexus, shared a three-pronged proposal for how he’d start to fix the tangled web he helped weave. First, give consumers control and transparency over their data.... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // May 21st, 2019 //
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A Masterclass In Political Grandstanding As Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies In DC

After around a year of avoiding the spotlight, Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent nearly four hours fielding a grab bag of questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, discussing everything from the scope of Google’s data collection practices to alleged political bias in search results. The problem, as is often the case... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // December 11th, 2018 //
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Kogan: Cambridge Analytica’s Supposed Data Genius Was Just Hack Work

It’s been a weird four months for Aleksandr Kogan. The 33-year-old went from an obscure research psychologist at Cambridge University to one of the villains at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Kogan, who testified Tuesday before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, apologized for his role in the controversy, but disputes that the data provided... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 20th, 2018 //
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After Parliamentary Testimony, Is Facebook Or The Ad Industry Capable of Self-Regulation?

Facebook’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, faced five hours of intense and technically savvy grilling by members of a parliamentary committee on Thursday. The takeaway: UK regulators don’t trust Facebook. To put it more pointedly in the words of British conservative MP Julian Knight: Facebook is a “morality-free zone” with no respect for consumer privacy or the... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 27th, 2018 //
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