Nov 22, 2021 | advertising, identity, Privacy Beat
Ad-tech touts email-based ad personalization, but can it work in the EU? | Massachusetts’ tough privacy bill Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER While EU questions legality of email-based schemes, ad-tech asserts it can still...
Oct 25, 2021 | governance, identity, Privacy Beat
Google appears to seek control over cross-site user logins | Expert proposes privacy “safe harbor” regime Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Google’s cross-site identity ideas broached at TPAC As third-party cookies fade,...
Oct 2, 2021 | governance, identity, Privacy Beat
Governance needed for “decentralized” web, McCourt says | Who decides when user data can be shared? Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER McCourt’s Project Liberty says ‘governance’ is part of three-legged stool for...
Aug 30, 2021 | advertising, identity, privacy, Privacy Beat, regulation, technology
Consumer Federation calls in detailed report for ban on “surveillance” advertising, citing privacy, discrimination, ID theft Backed by eight narrative fact sheets full of links and citations — a diagram (above), and a detailed...
Aug 20, 2021 | advertising, identity, Privacy Beat, trust
New W3C discussion ponders whether tracking is necessary for good user experience; is policy governance over tech needed? By Bill Densmore Posted: Aug. 20, 2021 Launching into its first substantive meeting, participants in a web-standards discussion group pondered...
May 28, 2021 | advertising, data, identity, Privacy Beat, technology
Google aids effort that’s starting “federated identity” W3C interest group; minutes show Facebook’s, other concerns By Bill Densmore, ITEGA In nearly six hours of web-based discussion over two days involving more than 80 technologists and corporate strategists, a...
