by Kate Kaye | Oct 23, 2021 | Data Regulation, Media
Kill Your Algorithm is a two-part Digiday podcast special exploring the implications of a more aggressive Federal Trade Commission. Sometimes referred to as weak and toothless in past years, the FTC is sharpening its fangs under the tough new leadership of Chairwoman...
by Kate Kaye | Oct 21, 2021 | Media, privacy
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has big ambitions to answer the cries from members of Congress and consumer privacy advocates to rein in big tech. However, the agency — which has just nine technologists — does not seem to be having much luck attracting and retaining...
by Kate Kaye | Oct 8, 2021 | Data Regulation, Media
As California gears up to write rules to enforce its privacy laws, the process will be led by an ad tracking critic who has spoken out against the email-based identity technologies currently flooding the ad tech market as replacements for cookies. Ashkan Soltani will...
by Kate Kaye | Oct 7, 2021 | Data Regulation, Media
The Federal Trade Commission is testing the waters on a new approach to reining in monopoly power as it relates to privacy, and its revised antitrust case against Facebook is Exhibit A. Facebook says the agency’s argument is baseless. The FTC, which is tasked both...
by Kate Kaye | Oct 4, 2021 | Media, privacy, The GDPR Impact
More than three years after Europe’s sweeping privacy law took effect, consent mismatches and illegitimate data collection continue to undermine advertisers’ and publishers’ efforts to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation. These issues bedeviled...
