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Criteo Hit With $44 Million Fine for GDPR Violations, Reinforcing Data Privacy and Transparency Rules

Adweek

Advertising powerhouse Criteo has found itself in GDPR hot waters with a massive fine of $44 million for breaching GDPR rules. s (CNIL), found Criteo had failed to obtain people's consent before collecting their data for ad targeting purposes, and had also neglected to provide.

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Criteo Hit With $44 Million Fine for GDPR Violations, Reinforcing Data Privacy and Transparency Rules

Adweek

Advertising powerhouse Criteo has found itself in GDPR hot waters with a massive fine of $44 million for breaching GDPR rules. s (CNIL), found Criteo had failed to obtain people's consent before collecting their data for ad targeting purposes, and had also neglected to provide.

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

Automatad Inc.

Vox EU examines how GDPR has affected global businesses. A recently released report by Vox EU, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Policy Portal, has revealed the impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on business performance globally. Related Read: Checklist for GDPR Compliance for Publishers.

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IAB Removes Legitimate Interest from Reworked TCF

VideoWeek

The IAB has been reworking the framework partly in response to an ongoing legal battle over the TCF’s compatibility with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A number of DPA rulings, as well as GDPR guidelines released by authorities including the UK’s ICO, made it clear that this wasn’t the case.

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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Clearcode

In the early days of programmatic advertising, ad targeting was limited to the context of the webpage and information about the user from the user-agent string (e.g., The GDPR came into effect two years later on May 25, 2018, and has changed the way companies collect, store and use personal data. an IP address for location).

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Spanish News Media Group Sues Meta for €550 Million over Advertising Foul Play

VideoWeek

The group says that at least between May 25th, 2018 (when GDPR came into force) and July 31st this year, Meta has used personal data for advertising purposes across its platform without collecting consent to do so. Meta would likely argue that news businesses have struggled due to wider market shifts, not just its own ad business.

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Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

TechCrunch Ads

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. That consent issue is one (solid) complaint against RTB under Europe’s GDPR. and 197 billion times in Europe every day.”

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