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Category: General Data Protection Regulation

Petition To Opt-Out of Google Ads Hiding Search Terms Due To User Data Protection

There was a Google Ads petition that was released, allowing advertisers to opt-out of the terms that Google Ads defined as problematic to “standards of privacy” and “protections around user data”.

PubMatic’s Identity Hub Offers ID Management Solution In Face Of Growing Privacy Regulations

PubMatic, an enterprise identity management solution, has released Identity Hub as part of its Prebid User ID module. The company gives publishers the ability to manage multiple IDs for each ad impression, ensuring advertisers can recognize and bid on their intended audiences. Identity Hub directly integrates with existing partners of PubMatics Prebid User ID module, including […]

How Google, The Digital Marketer, Is Adapting To Cookie Restrictions And Data Privacy

Google does a lot of things, not just search engine stuff that it did back in the day. It’s a marketing platform, a digital marketing company, and it even sells hardware, software, services and smart-home products as well. Despite this, Google is having to deal with the same privacy data constrained challenges that every digital […]

The United States Finally Starts To Talk About Data Privacy Legislation

Most everybody has probably heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that has been sweeping across Europe, which is a data privacy legislation that went into effect end of May.  Even though it originates in Europe, it effects US companies because it governs all European Union (EU) members, no matter where their data is collected. Data […]

Quantcast Reports More Than 90% Of Visitors To EU Domains Grant GDPR Consent

After all things are settled, what if most of visitors gave consent for use of their personal data under General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) rules? It seems that this is what is happening with the Quantcast Choice consent management platform, at least for European Union (EU) domains.  Quantcast Choice has announced that its platform, which, according to […]

Report: Most Consumers Think Companies Aren’t Doing Enough To Protect Their Data

It seems that consumers are still confused about how their privacy is being handled.  According to new research released Tuesday by digital advertising platform Choozle, they want companies to do more to protect them. In the report, a full 89 percent of consumers who were polled wants companies to take additional steps to protect their data. […]

Despite Marketers’ Optimism About New Privacy Laws, Massive Data Breaches Continue To Rock Consumers’ Trust

Because of the new data privacy laws being enacted, expectation that consumer privacy will be better maintained. But even with these new rules, will they help stem the seemingly endless reports of data breaches? I talked to some marketers who are hoping they will. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs the handling of European […]

Post-GDPR, Purch Points To 70 Percent Consent Rates And The Sweet Spot For Contextual Targeting

Contextual advertising for non-data-based targeting and user consent for data-based ad targeting could be getting new life following the launch in May of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). There are some adtech observers who have contended that contextual advertising can take the place of data-based audience targeting, since it doesn’t require consent and could cost […]

With GDPR Here, What Do US Companies Do If They Have A Breach?

Because of the sheer number of data breaches reported last year, along with a steady stream of new revelations about the misuse of data, it’s possible you think you’ve heard everything there is to know about data breaches. That’s not really the case. With the GDPR fully implemented, there’s yet another way for companies to be in breach of data […]

MarTech Landscape: What Is A Consent Management Platform (CMP)?

Over the last year, it seems the biggest word that was going around was “consent.” The biggest driver is the value of the term i the newly implemented General Data Regulation (GDPR). In order to manage all of those user consents, there is the consent management platform, or CMP for short.  (Content management platforms will […]