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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. Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog. “RTB is the biggest data breach ever recorded,” argues the ICCL.

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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.). “The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. Image Credits: CMA final report on online advertising and platforms market study, July 2020.

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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

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The boom for marketing technology has not left behind advertising technology, or adtech, but the digital acceleration wrought by the COVID pandemic has sped things up more. Advertisers are willing to invest in adtech for its ability to attract a target audience and generate strong insights. What is adtech?

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

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Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process which they say steers users into agreeing to extensive and invasive processing of their data. The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design.

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First-Party Data: Practical Monetization Guide for Publishers

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Data collected from numerous side sources had been productively used by all publishers and advertising companies until the safety of this practice was called into question. These actions include new laws and regulations applied to the digital world, such as the ePrivacy Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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The Problems With Behavioral Targeting

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From its inception, behavioral targeting revolutionized the online advertising landscape and changed the industry forever. It arose from the need among advertisers to focus their resources on the audiences that are more likely to be interested in their brand. So what are the problems with behavioral targeting , exactly?

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Digiday+ Research: A guide to the top 10 ID alternatives for publishers

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Identity technologies are the backbone of programmatic advertising, which has been dependent on tracking user data and third-party cookies for decades. In fact, most non-premium publishers depend on ad targeting through third-party cookies for over 80% of their ad revenue. What is ConnectID? What does it do?