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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.). Although a 2019 consultation , following publication of its preliminary report, featured breaking up the adtech giant as one of a number of potential remedies.).

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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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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

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At its core, programmatic ad buying is software-driven technology that seeks to automate all or parts of the ad buying process that were previously done manually. This has two benefits: Ad buying efficiency : Programmatic advertising improves the speed and scale of the ad buying process. Contextual ad targeting.

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First-Party Data: Practical Monetization Guide for Publishers

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These actions include new laws and regulations applied to the digital world, such as the ePrivacy Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In 2019 advertisers spent $19.2 The sheer volume of this data can provide valuable insights into customer’s behavior and improve targeting significantly. Availability.

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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?