Legal drama alert: The Federal Trade Commission refiled its privacy complaint against Kochava earlier this week. The case is under a temporary seal, so details are thin on the ground (for now).
Apple has a knack for making privacy-related product announcements that cast aspersions on the data practices of any company whose name isn’t “Apple,” and there were a handful of those.
In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.
The US now has nine state privacy laws on the books – and the list is only going to get longer over the next couple of years.
“Esto perpetua” – let it be perpetual, in Latin – is the state motto of Idaho, but it doesn’t apply to the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Kochava.
A new integration between SafeGuard Privacy and the Institute for Advertising Ethics will allow companies to automatically check whether they and their partners are adhering to a standard set of ethical standards covering privacy, data ethics and misinformation.
There’s been talk about raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Dona Fraser, SVP of privacy initiatives at BBB National Programs, weighs in.
Whenever the butterflies at Apple WebKit flap their wings, “Ad Tech Island” feels the aftershocks. Last week, a small change to Apple’s on-device tech to patrol third-party data collectors sent some mobile and online advertising practitioners into a tizzy over the loss of another sliver of data transparency. They also fret because Apple continues to […]
Most consumers think the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a lot broader than it is. But in a post-Dobbs world, it bears repeating: HIPAA doesn’t cover all health data, including reproductive health information collected through phones, tablets and other devices.
The Federal Trade Commission helped normalize and popularize the term “commercial surveillance.” But is the current FTC “anti-advertising”?
