When Cory Munchbach first started at BlueConic in 2015 as director of product marketing, the CDP category didn’t even formally exist yet. And so she’s seen quite a bit of change between then and Thursday, when she was promoted from COO to CEO.
Turns out it’s actually better to ask for permission than for forgiveness, at least when it comes to privacy compliance in Europe. Apple and Meta are living proof.
From the Federal Trade Commission’s plan to regulate privacy in the absence of a federal privacy law to Apple’s intimations about cracking down on fingerprinting, these are seven stories that sent ripples through the ad tech ecosystem in 2022 – and will keep on rippling in 2023.
In late May 2019 – one year after GDPR went into effect – European identity solutions provider Roq.ad decided to delete all of its data and rebuild its cross-device graph from scratch to make sure it only dealt in consented data as defined by the law.
Although there are important nuances between the different laws, businesses that have been working toward compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act are in a good position for complying with other state privacy statutes. But the CPRA has several unique provisions that make it a beast all its own.
Last week, the IAB’s multistate privacy agreement (MSPA) was made available for advertisers, publishers and ad tech partners to sign and begin using to track their data flows. But what is the MSPA?
There’s rapid progress being made on the Android version of Privacy Sandbox. Google said it plans to roll out the initial Privacy Sandbox beta to Android 13 mobile devices starting early next year. Google first announced the Android Privacy Sandbox less than a year ago, in February. Android 13 was released in September.
Google’s ad preference center is ready for prime time. The purpose of My Ad Center, which started rolling out to users on Thursday after first being teased in May, is to serve as a hub for tools that give people control over the ads they see and the data used to target them. “People are […]
The Federal Trade Commission is making privacy a priority. But that’s hard to do without a federal data privacy law. In the meantime, the FTC hopes to fill in the gaps with new rulemaking to apply privacy practices to consumer welfare enforcement broadly, said Rashida Richardson, attorney advisor to FTC Chair Lina Khan, speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference in New York City this week.
There are two sides to every story and two sides to every lawsuit. In late August, the Federal Trade Commission sued mobile measurement and data provider Kochava accusing the company of selling sensitive geolocation data. Here’s what Kochava CEO Charles Manning has to say about it.
