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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. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies used it for warrant-less phone tracking. 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.). “The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. Behavioral ad industry gets hard reform deadline after IAB’s TCF found to breach Europe’s GDPR.

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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

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Adtech includes various tools and technologies that help advertisers, agencies, and brands achieve greater efficiency, targeted reach, and real-time analysis and optimization. It can help marketers improve omnichannel engagement by targeting customers across many channels. The components of adtech. Supply-side platforms.

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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 Problems With Behavioral Targeting

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Although it is still one of the most common advertising methods, advertisers are actively looking for alternatives to behavioral targeting (such as contextual, semantic, permission-based, and so on). Secondly, behavioral targeting seems to have missed the mark on making advertisements “less annoying” for the consumer.

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

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In fact, most non-premium publishers depend on ad targeting through third-party cookies for over 80% of their ad revenue. Based on an interview with Iván Markman, Yahoo’s chief business officer, and Gio Gardelli, who leads product for Yahoo’s ad targeting, identity and trust. What is ConnectID?

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Digiday+ Research: How marketers are using AI to target ads, recommend products and provide customer service

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With e-commerce sales soaring in recent years, thanks in part to pandemic shutdowns, and the impending death of the third-party cookie driving a need for new data collection capabilities, more marketers are turning to natural language processing (NLP) and data-driven personalization to automate customer service and gather data for ad targeting.