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"PRIVACY TOWN" -- Can a news organization become its community’s “privacy protector” . . . cut down on ad fraud . . . and reach new readers, viewers and users with trustworthy services? ITEGA considers testing.
Read MorePre-law student’s paper examines the potential for constitutional challenge to CCPA | No firm conclusion
Could application of the U.S. Constitution’s interstate commerce clause — generally leaving nationwide business exchange to Congress to regulate — de-rail the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)? That’s the question posed in a legal review by a University of...
PRIVACY BEAT: Albany, N.Y., new battlefront over privacy regulation: big tech pans Balkan’s “information fiduciary” concept and doesn’t want the public to sue or be “opted out” by default
Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. While Congress holds a few hearings and focuses on antitrust law, states are trying out innovative ideas on the privacy front (New York) and enacting “opt-out” laws (Nevada). And the picture is becoming pretty clear...
Big tech, others, seek CCPA changes to allow trading of “premium features” for user data; open up use of publicly available information
Two important efforts to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have emerged — and one of them may affect the sale of premium content. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber and Lyft are pushing at least eight amendments in the California Legislature in...
PRIVACY BEAT: New Study Shows that Third-Party Cookie-Based Behavioral Advertising Delivers Only 4% Revenue Gain for Large Publisher
Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. Rounding Out Our First Month of Privacy Beat We are one month in and there has been a lot happening in the world of data privacy. This week we are continuing to follow updates to CCPA, Apple's 3rd-party tracking...
PRIVACY BEAT: Key AdTech Inventor Says Consumers Need Protection As Senate Panel Probes Privacy and Competition
Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. GDPR turns 1! The infant hit its first birthday this week, and how is its world changing? A year ago the European General Data Protection Regulation took effect. This week you can learn that the U.S. Senate is paying...
Key ad-tech inventor says consumers need protection; Senate panel probes data privacy and competition
The inventor of real-time bidding (RTB) and other online ad tech has told a U.S. Senate committee that it’s time to give consumers a bill of rights to protect their personal data and make it portable. “I think you can draft...