Fahad HSep 4, 20192 min readComplaint alleges that Google is circumventing GDPR with RTB personal data sharingA year ago, Brave’s Chief Policy Officer Dr. Johnny Ryan filed a complaint against Google before the Irish Data Protection Commission...
Fahad HAug 22, 20193 min readGoogle wants new industrywide standards to balance privacy and ads personalizationMost internet users understand the free content they consume is supported by data-driven advertising. Most people would prefer not to pay...
Fahad HAug 21, 20193 min readConsumers believe brands benefit more from personal data sharing than they doThere are an increasing number of surveys about data privacy — now coming almost weekly. These studies help gauge consumer sentiment but...
Fahad HJul 18, 20192 min readGoogle closes Chrome Incognito Mode loophole to improve privacyGoogle is beefing up Chrome’s Incognito Mode. The company confirmed in a blog post on Thursday that it is closing an API-related loophole...
Fahad HJul 10, 20192 min readMost consumers believe online privacy is impossible, survey findsCall it privacy fatalism, but people appear increasingly resigned to an internet in which privacy is “impossible.” As a consequence, they...
Fahad HMay 22, 20192 min readA year after GDPR, mobile notifications are up, location sharing is downIn the wake of GDPR and a constant drumbeat of largely negative privacy news in Europe and North America, consumers and marketers are...
Fahad HMay 8, 20193 min readAs part of broader privacy push, Google gives users more control over location dataOne of the major themes of Facebook’s F8 developer conference and this week’s Google I/O is privacy. Location is a sensitive and central...
Fahad HMay 8, 20193 min readGoogle’s Chrome will change cross-site cookie handling, ‘aggressively’ tackle fingAs expected, Google announced coming changes to the way its Chrome browser handles cookies and addresses fingerprinting on Tuesday at its...
Fahad HFeb 12, 20193 min readExclusive: IAB Europe to release updated consent framework later this year, Google to sign onThe Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe is incorporating feedback from publishers, including Google, as it preps the latest...
Fahad HSep 21, 20182 min readGoogle tells Congress approved third-party apps can scan Gmail dataBloomua / Shutterstock.com In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, Google acknowledged that it allows app developers to...
Fahad HSep 6, 20183 min readAs Google opts out of Senate Intelligence hearings, group sets up Google account posing as Russian tWhile Google was conspicuously absent from a Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, a research group announced it had once...
Fahad HSep 5, 20181 min readGoogle, IAB Europe still negotiating GDPR Consent Framework implementationIn May, the company said that it would likely start using the framework by August. The IAB Europe only released the framework for public...
Fahad HAug 17, 20181 min readSizmek unveils unified ad serving platform it says can replace Google’s walled gardenscooped up Rocket Fuel’s demand-side programmatic ad platform (DSP) last summer, Executive Chairman Mark Grether said the merger would...
Fahad HMay 24, 20181 min readGoogle to join IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent FrameworkThe framework is designed in part to allow advertisers and publishers to share consent across the ad tech ecosystem. Consent from users...
Fahad HMay 14, 20181 min readGoogle issues updated GDPR guidance to publishers on how to gain consent from usersCookieChoices, to include new tips and suggestions to advertisers and publishers in advance of the May 25 deadline for enforcement of the...
Fahad HMay 7, 20181 min readGoogle rolls out new ID requirements for US political adsblog post on Thursday. The post was attributed to Kent Walker, a Google senior vice president. Google said it will now require political...
Fahad HMar 26, 20181 min readGoogle’s steps toward GDPR surrounded by questionsWith the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect in two months, there are several new indications — none...
Fahad HFeb 21, 20181 min readOver a year out from P&G’s ultimatum: Are brands any safer? Is programmatic ad buying any more threw down a gauntlet. Frustrated by increasing instances of frauds, breaches, sloppy executions and potentially shady markups, Pritchard...
Fahad HNov 27, 20172 min readA new era: Mobile-location tracking, user consent and government surveillanceLast week, Quartz reported that Google has been collecting user and cell-tower location data even when people have turned location...
Fahad HMar 21, 20172 min readGoogle thaws (a little) on defamation casesGoogle’s recent freeze on granting defamation removal requests has thawed a little. Even so, the company’s actions around harmful and...
