by Kate Kaye | Sep 22, 2021 | antitrust, cheatsheet, Data Regulation, FTC, Online Marketing, privacy
Ad industry lawyers were up till the wee hours one morning over a decade ago awaiting a vote on legislation that could have given the Federal Trade Commission more power to make rules. When word came through that there would be no new FTC rulemaking authority,...
by Kate Kaye | Sep 15, 2021 | Data Regulation, Online Marketing, privacy
The Federal Trade Commission is closer to establishing a new bureau dedicated to protecting privacy in today’s data economy. A proposal passed by a House committee yesterday would allocate $1 billion to the FTC to staff a new bureau addressing unfair or deceptive...
by Grant Haven | Aug 31, 2021 | Data Regulation, Tech Talk, The Long Goodbye
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by Kate Kaye | Aug 12, 2021 | Data Regulation, Facebook, FTC, Online Marketing
When policymakers want to understand how political ad targeting affects elections, they look to academic researchers, and those researchers look to one of the most important platforms that sells those ads: Facebook. Now, Princeton University researchers who applied...
by Kate Kaye | Aug 3, 2021 | CCPA, Data Regulation, Media
For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state’s privacy law. Now, subtle and not-so-subtle indicators are emerging in enforcement letters and case examples from the state’s Office of the...
by Kate Kaye | Jul 28, 2021 | Data Regulation, FTC, Media
The Federal Trade Commission aims to toughen its approach to stopping data-related harms —and it wants help from people who understand ad tech. Staff from the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection convened on yesterday to evaluate research on issues...
