Apple slices up data brokers as privacy war escalates
Apple is ramping up its attack on the data broker industry in a global ad campaign designed to show how…
GDPR
Marketers still won’t go to ethics, despite potential hit
Customer satisfaction is now seen by marketers as their number one priority but they are only willing to go so…
Adtech war goes global with ‘staggering’ breach exposé
Privacy campaigners’ war on real-time bidding – the engine room of the adtech industry – has been ratcheted up to…
‘In limbo’ industry demands full details of data reforms
The DMA is demanding the urgent publication of the Government’s planned reforms of data protection laws, claiming the data-driven marketing…
Whistleblower claims trigger GDPR probes into Apple
An Apple whistleblower, who was sacked for leaking confidential information after raising privacy concerns as well as claims of sexism…
Facebook whistleblower tip of iceberg, ICO data shows
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is far from alone in exposing potentially illegal data practices of her employer, with the UK’s…
Irish slap Meta with €17m GDPR fine but critics remain
The Irish data watchdog is trying to prove it is a regulatory Rottweiler by slapping Facebook parent Meta with a…
French lifeline for online firms using Google Analytics
Online businesses which use Google Analytics have been given a lifeline by the French data protection watchdog, despite a ruling that…
Global brands ‘must stop using illegal pop-ups or else’
The bosses of eight of the world’s biggest online advertisers – the CEOs of Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Ford, GM,…
New IAB adtech framework ‘as flawed as the last one’
A reformed adtech system, launched by IAB Europe in response to a ruling that its official framework is in breach…