Privacy

Here are a few fun facts about the CPPA that you can trot out at cocktail parties (depending on whether you hang out with privacy nerds).

Driver Studios, which has a COPPA-compliant ads business, is expanding its targeting to include more adults via a new partnership with privacy startup Qonsent.

It may appear as if The California Privacy Protection Agency has been in hibernation mode. But don’t let that fool you. The bear is awake and it’s got an appetite.

The days of online ad industry self-regulation are well and truly over, say IAB Tech Lab CEO Tony Katsur.

Cookie loss is happening, even if it doesn’t feel imminent, and there’s no point in procrastinating, according to Sisi Zhang, chief data and analytics officer at Publicis-owned Razorfish.

Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter had some free advice for anyone tuning in to the Federal Trade Commission’s virtual PrivacyCon event on Wednesday: “Pay close attention to Kochava.”

Google claims that more than 90% of the 44 use cases analyzed by the IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox Task Force are actually still doable using the Privacy Sandbox APIs.

Lawmakers are busy playing politics, and it’s getting in the way of creating safety guardrails for children’s privacy online.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Google’s senior director of product management, Victor Wong, defended the Privacy Sandbox APIs and laid out in very direct terms the flaws Google sees in common criticisms of its sandbox proposals.

We’ve spent enough time and spilled more than enough ink this year talking and writing about Big Tech privacy fines, enforcement actions and the unutterably slow phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. So rather than rounding up the obvious online privacy trends of 2023, let’s dive into the weeds.