The Information Trust Exchange Project — Editors, researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and journalism advocates taking on the task of making a new market for digital information. Governed by a public-benefit consortium. Committed to respecting individual identity and privacy.
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Read MoreGehring: The background and rationale for the Information Trust Exchange project (2016)
In 2016, Donald. W. Reynolds Journalism Institute consulting fellow David Gehring wrote this backgrounder explaining why publishers could benefit from collaborating with then being incubated at RJI as the Information Trust Exchange project. He also elaborated on the...
Blockchain and ITEGA: Moving from Metaphor to Marketplace
If “blockchain” is largely a metaphor for such operating principles, then ITEGA at this stage is very consistent with the gestalt of the blockchain movement, once you get beyond the very abstract and application-unspecific technology of chains of data blocks that are...
Surveillance protection: Key benefits for publishers
By Don Marti & Bill Densmore Ad fraud is enabled by cross-site surveillance: A fraudbot collects cookies (“cookie licking”) at a legit publisher’s site, then uses them to look like a human when visiting fraud sites. This is called “data leakage.” The costs of fraud...
An opportunity for local news sites — testing how many of your best readers you’re giving away to ad networks
By Bill Densmore and Don Marti RELATED LINKS: What is data leakage? How the ITE can solve data leakage and fosters ethical advertising) Service journalism and the web advertising problem INTRODUCTION Web sites that depend on reaching users with trustworthy content...
How a news-industry trade group may be helping regulators (and the ITE) to support quality and privacy
By Don Marti Legitimate consumer privacy tools and high-reputation publishers, working together, can transform advertising on the web. Tools and sites can help users block low-value, cold-call-like targeted ads while permitting signal-carrying ads, the ones that...
A new year’s resolution: The end of ‘right ad to the right user at the right time’
By Don Marti Start toward the end of “right ad to the right user at the right time”. That's my aspiration for 2017. The current web advertising model depends on tracking the same user across multiple sites (either “anonymously” or using PII). Per-user targeting across...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/08/14/gdpr/
Opinion | Big tech is still violating your privacy
washingtonpost.com
Bullying customers into relinquishing data is not consent.
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Why Every Attempt At Regulating Privacy Will Fail
techdirt.com
It's been an interesting year for those of us who support strong privacy for the public -- in part because we've seen lots of movement on attempts to regulate privacy. However, you may have noticed that we've also regularly criticized...
18 hours 51 minutes ago
Why companies shouldn’t wait for regulation to step up their privacy practices
thehill.com
Christine Runnegar, senior director of Internet trust at the Internet Society, offers a “privacy code of conduct” for Internet companies.
19 hours 12 minutes ago
Opinion | These digital IDs have cost people their privacy — and their lives
washingtonpost.com
India’s biometric ID system is a cautionary tale.
19 hours 25 minutes ago
https://digiday.com/media/gdpr-publishers-adopting-cmps-fear-losing-ad-revenue/
Under GDPR, publishers are adopting CMPs for fear of losing out on ad revenue - Digiday
digiday.com
From July to August, publishers' adoption of consent-management platforms has risen by more than 12 percent, according to tech vendor Adzerk.
1 day 5 hours ago
Should platforms be regulated? A new survey says yes.
medium.com
In the two years since the 2016 election, the role major social media and technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter play in…
1 day 6 hours ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won
nytimes.com
Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.
1 day 6 hours ago
How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
technologyreview.com
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
3 weeks 2 days ago
https://www.axios.com/how-facebook-could-dodge-fake-news-land-mines-4f4e8f6f-35e0-4cd3-9cf0-0f41fc401338.html
Also see Facebook's own video of how it says it is fighting "false news."
URL: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/inside-feed-facing-facts/
How Facebook could dodge fake news land mines
axios.com
Mark Zuckerberg often see this as a PR problem, not a foundational one.
