The Network Advertising Initiative
(NAI), a nonprofit self-regulatory association dedicated to responsible data collection and its use for third-party digital advertising, has announced the launch of its email-based consumer
choice offering.
The form can be found on its website. Consumers go to the website, enter their email address, and click on the “I’m not a robot” box, along with the
member companies in which they wish to opt-out from.
Google, Oracle Advertising; Neustar; Criteo; Inmar Intelligence, previously OwnerIQ; and Verizon Media have already begun to integrate this
opt-out feature in their platforms.
Leigh Freund, NAI president and CEO, believes that any shift to hashed email addresses as identifiers must come with strong privacy protections, such as the
NAI’s universal opt-out from tailored advertising tied to an email.
Verizon Media also announced the integration of ConnectID with the NAI’s Audience Matched Advertising opt-out
platform.
The integration allows consumers to opt-out from Verizon Media ConnectID with their email address, which gets added to Verizon Media’s privacy and people-first controls for
targeted advertising.
Verizon Media, which reaches 148 million deterministic logged-in users across 400 million unique devices, also partnered with consent management company Osano, which
allows websites to capture user consent, making the company its recommended consent management platform for advertisers and publishers collecting first-party data.
The NAI’s plan is for
members to continue focusing on consumer privacy when evaluating replacements for cookies and mobile ad IDs.
The announced deprecation of third-party cookies in the Chrome browser has
presented challenges to traditional addressability methods, yet has spurred innovation from advertising technology companies. Some solutions propose to leverage hashed email addresses as a means to
distinguish between various users and devices.
Developed initially to provide a choice mechanism for first-party data matches with online identifiers like cookies, the scope of the
NAI’s email-based opt-out mechanism will expand to all use of hashed email addresses for tailored advertising, the organization said.