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 […]
Consent management platform (CMP) vendors are largely overpromising what their solutions can do out of the box, earning them an unflattering spot in Gartner’s most recent Hype Cycle report. The report, released Monday, is Gartner’s first Hype Cycle study focused solely on digital advertising. In Gartner’s view, CMPs are just about to reach the “peak […]
While Facebook, Google and Amazon have all been adamant that they don’t sell people’s data, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into force on July 1, has a very broad definition of what’s considered a data sale. In short, a sale under CCPA is about more than just the transfer of a California […]
Folks, enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is here. Starting July 1, despite protestations from the business and advertising communities, the California attorney general can start investigating complaints, bringing actions, poking into privacy policies and issuing fines. Lobbying to postpone enforcement until Jan. 1, 2021, in light of the ongoing pandemic, was brushed […]
France’s highest administrative court has ruled that the country’s data protection authority does not have the right to ban cookie walls. Cookie walls are pop-up notices that restrict access to a website until a visitor agrees to accept cookie tracking. The Conseil d’État, a division of the French government that serves as its supreme court […]
Apple didn’t explicitly kill off its ad ID during its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday as some expected, but it sure looks like it’s laying the groundwork. Sandwiched between flashy announcements about the Apple Watch, macOS Big Sur and surround-sound AirPods, Apple dropped a bombshell for third-party mobile ad tech. Starting with iOS 14, which […]
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 […]
Enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) begins in less than three weeks. “And many businesses just aren’t ready,” said Cillian Kieran, CEO and founder of Ethyca, a privacy compliance startup that closed its $13.5 million Series A on Thursday. The round brings Ethyca’s total funding to $20 million since the company raised its […]
Can companies use violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to nail a rival for noncompetitive behavior? We’re gonna find out. B2B intent data company Bombora said Wednesday it is suing its former partner ZoomInfo for gaining an unfair data advantage through, it claims, repeated abuses of the CCPA. Although CCPA enforcement doesn’t begin […]
The IAB Tech Lab publicly unveiled a technical spec on Friday so that publishers and their partners can handle data deletion requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Documentation for the spec, which is part of an overall framework for CCPA compliance, was committed to GitHub last week. Under CCPA, companies and third-party partners […]
