- Proposed CCPA Opt-Out Regulations Violate First Amendment, Ad Industry Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 29, 2020
Newly proposed California privacy regulations that aim to make it relatively easy for consumers to opt out of the sale of their data would violate businesses free speech rights, the ...
- IAB Wants A Say In Apple's Privacy Settings
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 29, 2020
IAB calls for "collective development of technical standards and operating practices" by browser and operating system developers. ...
- Fulfilling Data Access Requests Under GDPR And CCPA
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 29, 2020
You may have heard snippets about the data access requirements in the GDPR and CCPA. Here’s a guide to what the laws actually demand and how to comply. ...
- IAB France, Others Bring Antitrust Complaint In EU Against Apple Over Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Business groups including the Interactive Advertising Bureau France have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in Europe over planned opt-in privacy settings. ...
- CEO Hit For Sending Pro-Biden Emails To Customers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Expensify CEO David Barrett sent an Oct. 22 email to up to 10 million customers, urging them to vote for Joe Biden. But critics are calling out Barrett for alleged ...
- FCC's Starks Warns Against Misuse Of 'Deeply Personal' Location Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 26, 2020
"It's no wonder we're seeing wariness about adopting potentially useful things like contact tracing applications," FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said Monday. ...
- Microsoft Angered By Its Own Privacy Research: Opinion
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 26, 2020
Research conducted for Microsoft found that 90% of consumers worry about the data security, and that 70% say the federal government isn’t doing enough to protect them. A seething blog ...
- Behind Neustar Second-Party Marketplace That Taps iSpot, Scanbuy, Foursquare Data
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 26, 2020
Neustar is launching a second-party data marketplace that gives partners greater transparency and control of data, allowing them to build cost-efficient, custom audiences with second-party data vs.
third-party data. ...
- Consumer Reports Endorses California Ballot Initiative To Broaden Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 23, 2020
"This initiative will help to ensure that California consumers can stop some of the most privacy-invasive behaviors posed by the adtech ecosystem," Consumer Reports states. ...
- Facebook Tells NYU To Halt Political Research Project
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 25, 2020
Citing its policy against data scraping, Facebook has told NYU researchers to halt a project that explores political ads on the platform. ...
- Facebook Battles BrandTotal Over Data Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 22, 2020
Ad services company BrandTotal "put the security and integrity of Facebook and its users at risk," Facebook is telling a federal judge. ...
- Google Gets Closer To Targeting Ads Based On Personalization, Privacy
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 22, 2020
A Google study testing the use of audience cohorts -- people with similar browsing histories and interests who can be targeted collectively -- intends to support the end of individual ...
- Proposed CCPA Rule Requiring User-Friendly Opt-Outs Draws Support
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation is throwing its support behind a new California proposal that would require businesses to offer user-friendly privacy controls. ...
- Chrome Privacy Setting Malfunctions, Fails To Delete Data About Activity On Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Google's Chrome browser retains data about users' activity on Google.com and YouTube even after users activate a privacy setting that is supposed to clear all cookies and data. ...
- Semcasting Launches Self-Serve Identity Resolution, Audience Design, Attribution Platform
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Data is never copied or stored. The brand's identifier is the ID that syncs with the DSP directly. The ID never leaves the platform and is unique to each custo ...
- To Reduce Consumers' Digital Footprints, Ivacy VPN Partners With Private Search Engine Startpage
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Looking to reduce consumers' digital footprints and profile information, Startpage is partnering with virtual private network Ivacy VPN, adding Startpage as an option when Ivacy app users make a VPN ...
- BrandTotal Seeks Court Order Forcing Facebook To Lift Block
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 19, 2020
"Facebook's complaint brazenly labels the UpVoice browser extension 'malicious' with no explanation," BrandTotal writes in a request for a restraining order against Facebook. ...
- Consumers Plan To Shop Online, But Are Worried About Their Data, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
One slip-up would cause most shoppers to give up on a brand, at least temporarily, PCI Pal reports. ...
- Ivacy VPN Adds Startpage Private Search Engine
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Startpage has partnered with VPN service Ivacy, adding Startpage as a private search option. Neither company tracks users, logs their data or sells it. ...
- Justice Department Sues Google For Search Anticompetitive Business Practices
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The DOJ is expected to file the "most aggressive U.S. legal challenge to a company's dominance in the tech sector in more than two decades." ...
- IAB Europe's Data Framework Rejected By EU
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 19, 2020
EU data authorities have rejected a framework developed by IAB Europe for gathering consent from consumers. Systems of high-velocity data trading are incompatible with security measures demanded by EU law.&n ...
- White House Presses To Move Forward With TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, October 17, 2020
Citing the risk of Chinese espionage, the Trump administration is seeking to lift an injunction that prevents the government from banning new downloads of social app TikTok. ...
- Belgian Privacy Regulator Criticizes IAB Europe Over GDPR Compliance Framework
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 19, 2020
The IAB Europe's transparency and consent framework, rolled out in 2018, allows companies to disclose sensitive data about consumers without their permission, according to a summary of the Belgian Data ...
- Ad-Tech Group Warns Of Drawbacks In Potential CCPA Loophole
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Brands and publishers "should be thinking twice, maybe three times," before taking advantage of a potential loophole in California, the self-regulatory group Network Advertising Initiative says. ...
- UK Retailer Klarna Apologizes For Sending Marketing Email
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into a marketing email sent by British retailer Klarna. The company sent a follow-up message saying the original was in error, but recipients ...
- My Mobile: Consumers Accept Data Use For Personalized Ads, Emails On Phones
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Personalized emails produce a lower data acceptance lift on mobile than mood and life events, but still rank highly, per a study. ...
- Data And The Dodo Bird
Media Insider, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
I wonder if third-party data will become as extinct as the dodo bird? ...
- AT&T Customers Still Face Location Privacy Risks, Watchdog Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 12, 2020
AT&T customers risk disclosure of their location data, even though the company says it no longer sells location information to outside aggregators, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues. ...
- Newly Proposed CCPA Opt-Out Rules Would Ban Buried Links, Misleading Language
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 12, 2020
"A business's methods for submitting requests to opt-out shall be easy for consumers to execute and shall require minimal steps," the newest CCPA proposed regulations state. ...
- NBCU's Yaccarino Promoted To Chairman, Global Advertising, Partnerships
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 12, 2020
Yaccarino will head an effort to create a new data strategy unit -- a unified, "privacy safe identity" platform, and will help NBCU work more seamlessly under its new One ...
