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.
The US data privacy landscape is chaotic. The future of the recently proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act is now decidedly up in the air, and states are passing their own privacy laws in the absence of a federal one, which makes compliance complicated. Federal agencies like the FTC are also trying to fill the data privacy rulemaking void.
Data clean rooms are to 2022 what customer data platforms were to 2019: Everyone’s talking about them, but people don’t necessarily know what they’re talking about. One reason for the uncertainty is that there are no standards that define exactly what a clean room is or how it should operate. “There are a lot of […]
Earlier this week, AdExchanger asked FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya during his keynote at the NAD’s conference on advertising law in Washington, DC, why the commission decided to sue Kochava rather than any other ad tech company with a location data business. And, according to Bedoya, Kochava was singled out for a reason.
Although the Federal Trade Commission has historically been a fan of the ad industry governing itself, it’s been making moves to signal that the commission might start to reject self-regulatory practices, at least on the privacy front.
Oracle is big. Huge. But, the fact is, Oracle Data Cloud (what is now Oracle Advertising) doesn’t have and has never had 5 billion people in its ID Graph, regardless of Larry Ellison’s flair for the dramatic.
The US is long overdue for a federal privacy law, but the American Data Privacy and Protection Act might not be it. Considering the midterms are two months away, it’s unlikely we’ll see a full vote on the House floor before the election. And so we asked the experts: If the ADPPA doesn’t pass soon, what happens next?
The FTC sued Kochava on Monday for allegedly selling visitation data tied to abortion clinics, mental health facilities, places of worship, domestic abuse shelters and other sensitive locations.
TFW when you brag about the size of your graph on stage at an industry event, then it’s used as evidence against you. Oracle was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Friday accusing the company of “a deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence.”
