Section 230

The IAB predicts what privacy laws might be passed by the new congress; AI-generated newsletters are competing with local news; and the IAB Tech Lab ramps up production of new OpenRTB specs.

Danielle Coffey, CEO and president of the News/Media Alliance, believes journalism and generative AI can play nice. But first, gen-AI companies must get real about the value journalism brings to their products.

Section 230 protects tech platforms, but the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the statute. Plus, the latest in the courtroom battle between Kochava and the FTC.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]

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.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Section Off Late last week, two House Democrats introduced a bill that would require social media platforms to share and implement content moderation policies and would revise Section 230 by allowing the Federal Trade Commission to bring enforcement actions against tech companies that fail […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Two Google seems perennially mired in litigation these days. The latest legal salvo hurled at the tech giant is a $4.16 billion class action lawsuit in the UK alleging that Google illegally tracked 4.4 million iPhone users nearly 10 years ago in England […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GAID-night, Sweet Prince Hear that? It’s the sound of Google getting ready to drop the other shoe. Bloomberg reports that Google is thinking about implementing privacy controls on Android similar to the ones that Apple is close to rolling out on iOS 14. Google […]

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 […]

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has some feisty opinions about data privacy, Section 230 and social media platforms. “They’re just trying to maximize their ad revenue,” Yang said at a virtual summit hosted by NYC Media Lab on Thursday. Yang, who hasn’t ruled out a potential bid for NYC major, supports the idea that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh The Places You’ll Grow Instagram reportedly brought in about $20 billion in ad revenue last year, more than a quarter of Facebook’s total earnings, Bloomberg reports. Those numbers aren’t confirmed – the sources are anonymous and Facebook doesn’t break out Instagram revenue. But […]