Fostering a Digital Marketplace that Respects User Privacy and Identity

The Information Trust Exchange Project — Editors, researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and journalism advocates taking on the task of making a new market for digital information. Governed by a public-benefit consortium. Committed to respecting individual identity and privacy.

"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.

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Ethan Zuckerman

Managing identity and privacy for the public is an important unmet challenge. There is no institution better positioned than local news organizations to provide this service to the public in the context of a trusted third party like ITEGA

Fran Wills

Privacy is of paramount importance to the Local Media Consortium, its members, and the consumers who engage with local news. Because of ITEGA’s expertise and commitment to online privacy, we’ve partnered with them to develop privacy practices for our...

Douglas K. Smith

Friends often ask me when someone will put together a ‘Netflix for news,’ with one password that works on many sites but respects privacy. ITEGA is my favorite of the proposals so far.

PRIVACY BEAT: Privacy taking center stage?

Privacy Beat Your weekly privacy news update. Privacy taking center stage? The executive suites at Google, Facebook and Apple, like it or not, are now talking publicly about privacy and their products. Browser software is being adjusted to listen better to consumer...