Is Google planning its own version of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention? Never say never. Google is less than two months away from instituting a policy change within the next iteration of Chrome that will severely limit cross-site cookie sharing, and most ad tech companies seem blithely unaware. Starting Feb. 4, and to coincide with the […]
Regular Californians and business owners are uneasy about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), based on the feedback submitted to the California attorney general’s office on the AG’s implementation regs. The deadline to turn in comments to the AG’s office was Friday, Dec.6, which followed a 45-day public comment period. Although lawyers and trade associations […]
A federal privacy law is still a blip on the horizon. But listening to members of the Senate Commerce Committee dig into the details on legislative proposals to protect consumer data privacy at a hearing on the topic held Wednesday morning, you wouldn’t be laughed out of a room if you said that a bipartisan […]
Ad industry, you can get off your tenterhooks: Google is going to adopt the IAB Tech Lab’s technical specs for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The specs, which create a US privacy string not dissimilar to the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by IAB Europe in the run up to GDPR, […]
Compliance tools are coming out of the woodwork with less than a month to go until the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on Jan. 1. The latest is a consent management platform from LiveRamp released on Wednesday, which the data onboarding company built using technology it acquired from Europe-based CMP Faktor in […]
Democratic lawmakers took another step on the long march toward federal privacy legislation on Tuesday with a new Senate bill that aims to serve as a framework for a national law. The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) would limit how consumer data is collected, establish a set of consumer data rights and beef up […]
Self-reg is revving up in the lead-up to the CCPA effective date on Jan. 1. The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) said Monday that it’s finalizing mechanisms that would allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal information as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The tools aren’t available to use […]
Google will allow sites and apps to disable personalized ad serving across its ad products to help partners comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA goes into effect in less than six weeks. Here’s how it works: Advertisers and publishers will be able to restrict how data is processed through Google Ads, […]
The IAB Tech Lab released the first version of technical specs on Monday that publishers and ad tech companies can use to start complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) while transacting via real-time bidding. The Interactive Advertising Bureau sought public comments for a draft of the compliance framework over a two-week period from […]
Microsoft is planning to apply the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) across the entirety of its business and customer base in the United States. Why? Because Congress can’t get its act together (literally). In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft decried the fact that there’s been no serious movement to draft bipartisan federal privacy legislation. […]
