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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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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. Contextual ad targeting.

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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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Black History Month Spotlight: 8 Industry Shapers in Ad Tech & Digital Media

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Oliphant then led a Solutions Team at IBM’s Watson Advertising division, utilizing Weather Company assets and IBM tech to help create and scale products like the AI-based Watson ad unit and real-time weather-enabled ad targeting inside Facebook.

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The Benefits of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) In AdTech

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PETs can also help advertisers and publishers comply with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA. This can lead to more effective ad targeting and a better user experience. This can improve user trust and reduce the risk of data breaches or misuse.

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Why I’m glad third-party cookies are dying

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Ever since GDPR was rolled out in Europe back in 2016, the rules for how marketers can collect and use data have been getting stricter and stricter, but the real hammer blow will hit next year. A lot of ad targeting options will probably disappear, too, though Google and others are trying to build replacements.).

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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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