We’re just weeks away from one of the most significant changes ever to online privacy, and businesses around the world are working hard to make sure they’re prepared. The General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR, goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. It’s a sweeping set of laws being enacted by the European […]
A group of international publishers is dissatisfied over Google’s compliance strategy for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy rules. Set to take effect on May 25, the rules require companies to gain explicit consent for personal data collection and use for ad targeting. Publishers tell Google: We’re not your consent lackies https://t.co/FXjyVqJ4zr — The
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In March, Google issued some indications of how it intends to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), going into effect in about a month. Now, four major publisher trade groups have released a five-page joint letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai with a basic message: nope. The groups are Digital Content Next,
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Thousands of sources have published their “expert” advice about the law and how it applies to email marketing over the past several months. But here’s the thing: Much of their advice is wrong or misleading — and it’s causing a lot of misunderstanding, confusion and fear
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In the run up to the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), new data shows that 86.5% of WordPress websites in the UK are vulnerable to known hackable exploits. With GDPR now only a month away, businesses across Europe are gearing up for what will potentially be one of the biggest shifts in data privacy
The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is beginning to remake the landscape for marketing and advertising by encouraging inventive new open-source alliances. Two of them affecting this space have emerged in the last few weeks — and, although unrelated, they’re both called Open GDPR. The OpenGDPR framework was announced late last week by its
Earlier this month, U.S. senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a privacy “bill of rights” to protect American consumers’ personal data. The Customer Online Notification for Stopping Edge-provider Network Transgressions (CONSENT) Act would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish privacy protections for customers of online edge providers like Facebook
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YouTube is closing off access to third-party ad serving and pixel tracking globally, just ahead of the date when the European Union’s sweeping privacy regulation takes effect next month. “YouTube will no longer support third-party ad serving on reserved buys in Europe beginning May 21, and it will assess whether to extend that policy globally,”
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If you are a US business that just started thinking about how to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), time is running out. When the sweeping European Union (EU) legislation goes into effect on May 25, entities that process the data of European citizens are subject to a slew of new rules, which
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Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a key House panel next week, the Congressional House Energy and Commerce Committe announced Wednesday. Zuckerberg will face the committee on April 11. It’s the first of three potential hearings where he could face questions about Facebook’s data privacy practices. “This hearing will be an important opportunity
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