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MarTech’s guide to GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation

Martech

When the European Union adopted its General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, the law was heralded as a privacy game changer that would usher in a new era of consent around online data collection and put the right to protect personal information directly in the hands of individuals. ”) GDPR’s stateside influence In the U.S.,

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Goodbye to cookies: Digital advertising’s leap in the dark

Martech

Mozilla deprecated third-party cookies in its Firefox browser in 2018; Apple did the same for Safari in 2019. In January 2020 Google announced it would deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser, and here we are, more than four years later. Can we take the looming deadline to find alternatives to third-party cookies seriously?

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European Data Protection Board Agrees Ground Rules for Cookie Banners

VideoWeek

When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018, it became a legal requirement across the EU to collect explicit user consent in order to process any personal data. Cookie banners were nothing new. Except, specifications around what cookie banners should look like were vague.

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

Automatad Inc.

Post cookie insights for publishers. Vox EU examines how GDPR has affected global businesses. Are Publishers Prepared for a Post-cookie World? Association of Online Publishers (AOP) surveyed 111 industry professionals to share post-cookie insights for publishers and advertisers. Last Week’s Highlights. AdTech Trends.

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The ICO Gives Publishers 30 Days to Fix Their Cookie Consent Mechanisms

VideoWeek

Some of the UK’s most visited websites run cookie consent notifications which aren’t compliant with data protection laws, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection authority. Understanding compliance is not easy. Now however, the training wheels are coming off.

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How to provide privacy-compliant media in advertising’s post-cookie era

illumin

The alarm has been sounding for years, but the event some marketers have dreaded for years is finally upon us – the post-cookie era is here. Now, let’s be honest with ourselves – none of the AdTech media vendors on the open web are completely free from third-party cookies.

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The Demise of Third-Party Cookies in AdTech: Why Are They Being Phased Out?

Clearcode

At the center of this are third-party cookies and their demise in popular web browsers. In this article, we explain what third-party cookies are, how they work, how they are used in programmatic advertising, why they’re going away, and what the alternatives are. Table of Contents What Are Third-Party Cookies?

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