Company closure and 4-year ban for director after marketing regulation breach
A director of a lead generating service has been banned for four years after failing to ensure his company complied […]
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Data location vendor worked with GDPR regulator on data consent model, yielding 70% opt-in rates
Last August French privacy regulator CNIL cited two French location-intelligence companies (Fidzup and Teemo) as non-compliant with GDPR consent rules […]
EU DPAs urged to act against online ad auctions
Panoptykon Foundation, the Warsaw based digital rights organization, has joined in the complaints filed in the UK and Ireland in […]
Privacy Groups Claim Online Ads Can Target Abuse Victims
Complaints filed in Europe claim internet companies categorize users based on potentially sensitive browsing habits, and then use those labels […]
Facebook restricts campaigners’ ability to check ads for political transparency
Facebook has restricted the ability of external political transparency campaigners to monitor adverts placed on the social network, in a […]
Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome
The drafted changes will limit the capabilities available to extension developers, ostensibly for the sake of speed and safety. Chromium […]
The case against behavioral advertising is stacking up
The NYT’s experience puts fresh taint on long-running efforts by tech giants like Facebook to press publishers to give up […]
What is identity resolution?
Identity resolution tools take simple analytics a step further by tying online behavior to a consumer’s unique identity, giving marketers […]
Everything Is PII
When the EU’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect last year, it, among other things, expanded the […]
After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe – and kept growing ad revenue
When the General Data Protection Regulation arrived last year, The New York Times didn’t take any chances. The publisher blocked […]
Apple chief calls for laws to tackle ‘shadow economy’ of data firms
Apple’s chief executive has called for regulation to tackle the “shadow economy” of data brokers – intermediaries who trade in […]
Germany may ban Facebook from third-party data sharing
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office intends to ban Facebook from collecting user data from third parties. This will also prohibit data […]