Fahad HSep 4, 20192 min readState AGs prepare to announce antitrust investigation against Google, potentially othersA forthcoming investigation involving more than 20 states attorneys general puts further legal pressure on Google and potentially other...
Fahad HAug 23, 20192 min readApple’s WebKit outlines cross-site tracking crackdown, will block advertisers who try to bypasApple’s WebKit team published its tracking prevention policy last week, outlining its stance against technologies designed to track user...
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 HAug 14, 20192 min readPersonalization offer doesn’t lead to more personal data sharing [Survey]It’s widely accepted by marketers that consumers want increasingly personalized digital experiences. And while there’s considerable...
Fahad HJul 24, 20193 min readFTC settlement with Facebook imposes tough new privacy rules, including personal liability for CEO ZFacebook critics were grousing that $5 billion was too little to pay for the company’s alleged repeated violations of user privacy, in...
Fahad HJul 22, 20192 min readFollowing its $5 billion Facebook fine, the FTC penalizes YouTube and EquifaxThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been busy lately. The agency followed up its recent $5 billion Facebook fine with two new...
Fahad HJul 12, 20192 min readRecent funding news indicates increased need for data compliance managementThe past year has brought on an enormous shift for digital marketers and organizations. In the wake of GDPR — and with CCPA going into...
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 24, 20194 min readGDPR: A ‘Y2K’ moment or a sea change for the digital ecosystem?There was a lot of hand wringing leading up to last May’s implementation of GDPR. But since that time there have been few fines or...
Fahad HMay 24, 20194 min readIs GDPR working? Brave’s Johnny Ryan says it’s starting to, and marketers must heed the Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The landmark law created a unified,...
Fahad HMay 23, 20192 min readOnly 36% of UK consumers have greater trust in companies after GDPR, survey findsGDPR has not given consumers greater confidence in interacting with publishers and marketers online, according to a new survey of UK...
Fahad HMay 20, 20192 min readAs CCPA deadline approaches, only 14% of enterprises fully compliant so farA new survey has found that only 14% of companies subject to looming California Consumer Privacy Act regulation consider themselves fully...
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 HFeb 11, 20193 min readCybersecurity for marketers: Teamwork is key to protect dataThere was a time when network security was merely a concern for security professionals and CISOs. But after serious, ongoing high-level...
Fahad HFeb 7, 20192 min readFacebook will show users the agencies, partners involved in Custom Audience targetingLater this month, Facebook will begin showing users who are targeted with ads via Custom Audiences which companies had a hand in their...
Fahad HJan 30, 20193 min readFacebook pulls Research app after backlash over use of teen dataFacebook has removed a controversial app, dubbed Facebook Research, from the iOS app store after coming under fire for essentially paying...
Fahad HOct 24, 20182 min readReport: Apple expected to say GDPR a model for US privacy regulationAccording to a report from Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook will praise the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a privacy...
Fahad HSep 25, 20182 min readFeds call for public comments on US privacy legislation ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearingSenate hearing with top tech firms on the state of consumer data privacy, several pro-business groups have made their voices heard on the...
Fahad HSep 12, 20183 min readTop tech firms call for pro-business updates to federal data privacy lawscalled for updates to federal data privacy legislation on Tuesday. Updates at the federal level could potentially overide the newly...
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...
