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Enhanced Notice: Recruiting Advertisers Now

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February 1st 2010
Author
Chad Little

ADOTAS – On January 27, a collation of online trade groups, including the Future of Privacy Forum and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, released their proposed standards for enhanced notice, which refers to a universal phrase or symbol on ads shown to a consumer based on their demographic or behavioral data. The [...] more...

FTC Privacy Roundtable, Part II: All About the Tech

Written on
January 27th 2010
Author
Reed Freeman

ADOTAS – Tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, the Federal Trade Commission kicks off the second of its three-part roundtable series, “Exploring Privacy” — a tutorial on where the agency stands on enforcement of privacy matters that should be of high importance [...] more...

2010: The Year of Data

Written on
December 24th 2009
Author
Russell Glass

ADOTAS – This year saw data and audience targeting enter the mainstream conversation. This growing trend gave rise to increasingly noisy conversations about how that data is being used, whether it’s effective in improving the online experience, how to measure its effectiveness and whether its use violates online privacy or [...] more...

As Privacy Debate Rages, Yahoo Rolls Out Advanced Opt-Out Platform

Written on
December 7th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Court is in session! The Federal Trade Commission is hosting its much ballyhooed public roundtable on online privacy today in the nation’s capital — will privacy advocates rule the day and move the FTC a step closer to regulation? Well, you better believe that Internet marketers aren’t going [...] more...

IAB Launches ‘Privacy Matters’ in Advance of FTC Roundtable

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December 4th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It could be quite a manic Monday for digital advertisers. Privacy advocates are calling Dec. 7 “Pearl Harbor Day” for the Internet advertising industry as the Federal Trade Commission launches its public roundtables on consumer privacy issues. Certainly many members of the public as well as legislators are up [...] more...

Regional Networks Vanish With Facebook Privacy Update

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December 3rd 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – At 350 million users, Facebook has a larger population than the United States. Addressing this growth and the challenges it presents for user privacy, Facebook has updated its privacy policy and is terminating regional networks The current privacy model is centered around these networks, and founder Mark Zuckerberg explains [...] more...

Authorities claim Google Analytics violates German law

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November 24th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – European Union concerns about privacy issues related to online advertising have resulted in one banal warning after another. Seems like since the summer the governing body has been hovering like a pitch black cloud over the industry, but hasn’t yet burst into storm. Federal and regional German officials, on [...] more...

Cyber security: Beyond black and white

Written on
November 3rd 2009
Author
Dianna Koltz

ADOTAS – This is the final article in a four-part series dedicated to National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Read the first article here, the second article here and the third article here. During last week’s Online Trust Alliance’s Online Trust & Brand Protection Summit in Philadelphia, Maneesha Mithal, assistant director of [...] more...

Industry advocacy helps kill Maine privacy bill

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October 19th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – About a month after the bill was enacted, the judiciary committee of the Maine legislature voted to repeal a privacy law aimed at protecting minors after several advertising and technology groups challenged its constitutionality. On Friday, the committee sided with a plethora of industry and civil rights organizations in [...] more...

The Cookie Monster—Is it Eating Your Privacy?

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September 10th 2009
Author
Andrew Edwards

ADOTAS — Cookies are a foundational part of accurate web analytics. They let us marketers recognize returning visitors and allow us to perform some very useful tasks, such like as user segmentation and path analysis, without which we’d have to consider ourselves rather primitive digital marketers indeed. Take away cookies on [...] more...



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