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Weekly Roundup: Post-Cookie Insights for Publishers, GDPR Impact on Global Businesses, and More

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Vox EU examines how GDPR has affected global businesses. A recently released report by Vox EU, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Policy Portal, has revealed the impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on business performance globally. Related Read: Checklist for GDPR Compliance for Publishers.

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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

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In the early days of programmatic advertising, ad targeting was limited to the context of the webpage and information about the user from the user-agent string (e.g., The GDPR came into effect two years later on May 25, 2018, and has changed the way companies collect, store and use personal data.

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Spanish News Media Group Sues Meta for €550 Million over Advertising Foul Play

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The group says that at least between May 25th, 2018 (when GDPR came into force) and July 31st this year, Meta has used personal data for advertising purposes across its platform without collecting consent to do so. Meta would likely argue that news businesses have struggled due to wider market shifts, not just its own ad business.

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Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

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Highly sensitive personal data on web users is, meanwhile, routinely sucked up and shared for ad targeting purposes, as previous ICCL reports have detailed in hair-raising detail. “RTB is the biggest data breach ever recorded,” argues the ICCL. and 197 billion times in Europe every day.”

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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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Google also recently revised its approach to push for topic-based ad targeting, rather than cohorts.). However the DPC is being sued for inaction over complaints that date back to 2018. Behavioral ad industry gets hard reform deadline after IAB’s TCF found to breach Europe’s GDPR.

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Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints

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The tech giant profiles account holders for ad targeting purposes — apparently relying on user consent as its legal basis. The series of GDPR complaints are being coordination by members group BEUC, aka the European Consumer Organisation. But Ireland has yet to issue a single GDPR decision against Google.

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The Many Benefits of First-party, Consent-based Advertising: Q&A with Arshdeep Sood, OneTrust’s Strategic Solutions Engineer

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Stay up-to-date with regulations: Our solution ensures publishers remain current with data privacy regulations and comply with relevant laws, such as GDPR and CCPA. It can lead to increased form submissions, page views, longer time spent on the site, and higher click-through rates on ads, all of which can help boost revenue.