data collection

Ashley Casovan, managing director of the IAPP’s AI Governance Center, on how AI is reshaping who does governance work and how.

The hunger for first-party data is driving companies to demand our information more aggressively than ever. It’s hard to buy a coffee, magazine or sweater these days without someone demanding your name, number, email or home address.

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

Bacardi doesn’t have a digital marketing strategy, per se – because it’s all digital, says Laila Mignoni, the brand’s global VP of marketing and creative excellence.

Publicis Groupe-owned Epsilon has been in the CRM business for 30 years, but the agency only launched a self-service digital CDP for enterprise clients late last month.

Like F1 cars, the marketing world also generates data. The difference is it’s not connected to anything that can help brand managers make the kind of data-fueled decisions that have been a game changer for F1 teams, writes Andy Hopkinson, strategic director of Extreme Reach.

IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework is flawed and unfixable – and it’s time for the ad industry to stop desperately looking for workarounds, writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity.

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.”

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rachel Miller, director of marketing communications at Permission.io. California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently sent enforcement letters that clarify the scope of what is considered a data sale under the […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Cory Munchbach, chief operating officer at BlueConic. It’s been a bad couple of weeks for what I’ll call “the data economy.” A new study from the journal Nature Communications laid bare […]

Multinational brands and ad tech companies doing business in China will have new hoops to jump through starting November 1. That’s when China’s newly passed privacy regulation, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), goes into effect. The National People’s Congress, China’s top legislative body, voted to adopt the law on August 21. That doesn’t leave […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who’s Counting? The verdict is in: Nielsen likely undercounted some pandemic audiences … not the greatest look for a company who’s entire schtick is counting things. As Variety reports, the Media Rating Council found a “generally consistent pattern of underreporting of viewing” by Nielsen […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. A lot of people in the ad industry probably don’t know exactly what Google’s […]

Remember that 50 million euro fine that Google got slapped with in France for failing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation last year? Looks like Google is going to have to pay up. On Friday, the Conseil d’État (translates to Council of State), a division of the French government that serves as the […]

Data protection in the time of the coronavirus is a tricky proposition. Although health data is considered extremely sensitive under the General Data Protection Regulation and usually requires explicit consent, a subsection of the law includes a clause within Article 9 that allows for the processing of personal information without consent if it’s necessary to protect “against […]

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 […]

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 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is nearing its final form. With the close of the state legislature’s 2019 session on Friday, no more bills can be introduced this year, and the handful of amendments that did pass the Senate are now headed to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for a signature. Newsom has until […]

“Break up Big Tech” is a good sound bite for presidential candidates on the stump. But antitrust regulators in the United States and around the world aren’t rushing to sharpen their scalpels just yet. While there’s no denying that companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and even Netflix “are extremely strong,” their size in the […]

There aren’t a lot of companies that can take a multibillion-dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission in stride – and fewer still whose stock actually rises on the news. But that’s Facebook for you, whose stock went up 1.8% at the close of trading last week after reports that the FTC is planning a $5 […]

A crop of amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act have been sent to the state Senate for a vote. The bills, which aim to modify and clarify the regulation, were first approved in waves by the California Assembly throughout the month of May. The ones that receive the Senate’s eventual blessing will then head […]

Freight trains take time to build steam. That’s your metaphor for what’s to come in 2019 for the General Data Protection Regulation. “I think people were expecting a massive fine on Day One,” said Forrester principal analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo, “[but] these investigations take time.” Data protection authorities (DPAs) across Europe have their hands full fielding […]

2018 was the year Facebook’s skeletons really came skittering out of the closet, and the drip, drip, drip of bad news is seemingly endless. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Facebook shared more data with more partners than previously disclosed, including contact information, private messages and friend lists. Facebook’s response to the Times […]

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 […]

There’s no point passing a comprehensive federal privacy legislation if the main enforcement agency doesn’t have the means to hold feet to the fire. On Tuesday, all five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection in Washington, D.C., to make an appeal for more resources. “Section 5 is […]

There is life after a GDPR enforcement warning. Location data ad tech startup Teemo, one of the first companies admonished under the General Data Protection Regulation for gathering and processing data without informed consent, was given the all clear on Thursday. Teemo, headquartered in Paris, received an ultimatum from France’s data protection authority, the Commission […]

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May, Nestlé Germany was ready. Germany’s data collection laws have been notoriously austere for decades, much to the chagrin of some digital players. National laws – such as the Federal Data Protection Act, the Criminal Code, the Civil Code, the Telecommunications Act and Telemedia Act […]