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Blockchain is a metaphor for doing things in a decentralized and distributed manner as much as possible. The approach we have supported for the news industry is one in which there is a shared service for authenticating users, and vendors who run within that shared...
Gehring: 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...
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FACEBOOK HAD DOCUMENTS IN A U.S. LAWSUIT SEALED BUT A BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SEIZED THEM AND RELEASED THEM. THIS STORY AND OTHERS IN THE NY TIMES PAINT A DISTURBING PICTURE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-emails-privacy-data.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-documents-uk-parliament.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/business/dealbook/facebook-email-data.html
Documents show Facebook used user data as competitive weapon
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Internal Facebook documents released by a U.K. parliamentary committee offer the clearest evidence yet that the social network has used its enormous trove of user data as a competitive weapon, often in ways designed to keep its users in the dark. Parliament's media committee accused Facebook on Wedn...
2 weeks 10 hours ago
MOZILLA BROWSER MARKET SHARE CONTINUES SLOW DECLINE, BUT NEW DEAL WITH GOOGLE ALLOWS IT TO UP SPENDING ON DEVELOPMENT AND PRIVACY INITIATIVES
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-mozilla-more-money-to-push-privacy/
Facebook's bad times mean plenty of work for Mozilla. Its 8 percent revenue jump should help.
cnet.com
Too bad fewer people are using Mozilla's web browser.
2 weeks 5 days ago
Opinion from Dr. Nathalie Maréchal is a senior research fellow at Ranking Digital Rights.
EXCERPT:
"Policymakers around the world, including in Washington, are increasingly aware that privacy and data protection are intimately linked to the basic structure of society. Neither they, nor the public, are likely to accept the status quo for much longer.
Saving democracy requires more than reforming internet companies, of course, and the exact recipe for success varies by country. In the United States, we need to reverse 30 years of media deregulation, exponentially increase public support for public interest media, and address the structural inequalities in our electoral system that give power to a party that less than half the electorate supports."
Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World
motherboard.vice.com
Surveillance capitalism and targeted advertising have become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting all of us.
2 weeks 6 days ago
https://brave.com/cnil-consent-rtb
French regulator shows deep flaws in IAB's consent framework and RTB | Brave Browser
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French regulator's decision against an adtech company confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent. The case also illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time b...
2 weeks 6 days ago
GDPR / AD-TECH: Brave's Johnny Ryan joins those who think French data ruling may mean the IAB's Consent Framework doesn't protect real-time bidding consent strings
"[E] even with a perfect consent system, there are problems, said Johnny Ryan, chief policy and industry relations officer at open-source web browser Brave, who called the IAB’s framework “quicksand upon quicksand.”
“[Vectaury] is clearly just the tip of the iceberg,” Ryan said. “Billions of bid requests are broadcast each day, with no control over what ad tech companies do with the data.”
In September, Brave filed a complaint in the United Kingdom and Ireland arguing that real-time bidding and the systematic sharing of bid request data by Google and other ad tech companies constitutes a data breach under GDPR."
https://adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/is-the-iabs-consent-framework-in-trouble/
ALSO SEE: https://brave.com/cnil-consent-rtb
Ryan writes: "French regulator’s decision against an adtech company confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent. The case also illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time bidding system” (RTB)."
Is The IAB’s Consent Framework In Trouble? | AdExchanger
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The IAB Europe’s GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework – which many ad tech companies now depend on to pass user consent strings – could be on shaky legal ground. On Nov. 9, France’s data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (the CNIL), issued a...
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EXCERPT FROM REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Advertising identifiers (which are purportedly “user anonymous” and collect activity data on apps and 3rd-party webpage visits) can get connected with a user’s Google identity. This happens via passing of device-level identification information to Google servers by an Android device. Likewise, the Google-owned DoubleClick cookie ID (which tracks a user’s activity on the 3rd-party webpages) is another purportedly “user anonymous” identifier that Google can connect to a user’s Google Account if a user accesses a Google application in the same browser in which a 3rd-party webpage was previously accessed. Overall, our findings indicate that Google has the ability to connect the anonymous data collected through passive means with the personal information of the user.
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Google data collection research - Digital Content Next
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While the public has been focused on the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, Google has largely avoided public scrutiny about its data collection practices. This research exposes how much data Google is collecting about consumers and their most personal habits across all of its product...
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https://www.aaaa.org/4as-comments-on-developing-the-administrations-approach-to-consumer-privacy/
4A’s Comments on “Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy” - 4A's
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On Friday, November 9, 2018, the 4A’s submitted two sets of comments in response to the request for public comments on “Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy,” a September 26 notice by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a division of the U....
3 weeks 5 days ago
https://digiday.com/media/alliance-publishers-uk-compete-duopoly/
Top UK publishers have a new alliance to compete with the duopoly - Digiday
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Despite the many setbacks of previous attempts, dozens of alliances have sprung up among publishers and broadcasters across Europe in the last year.
4 weeks 2 days ago
VIDEO: Sixty Minutes on CBS on Sunday Nov. 11 run a good summary of the forcing function of GDPR -- watch an industry lobbyist refused to accept that users should "own" any data. It was the first segment and starts two minutes into the episode video, below.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/your-data-ultra-deep-the-pact/
Your Data, Ultra Deep, The Pact
cbsnews.com
The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies; then, what lies at the bottom of one of the deepest holes ever dug by man?; and, the Griffin brothers' journey to the NFL
