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.
"PRIVACY TOWN" -- Can a news organization become its community’s “privacy protector” . . . cut down on ad fraud . . . and reach new readers, viewers and users with trustworthy services? ITEGA considers testing.
Read MoreBig tech, others, seek CCPA changes to allow trading of “premium features” for user data; open up use of publicly available information
Two important efforts to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have emerged — and one of them may affect the sale of premium content. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber and Lyft are pushing at least eight amendments in the California Legislature in...
Key ad-tech inventor says consumers need protection; Senate panel probes data privacy and competition
The inventor of real-time bidding (RTB) and other online ad tech has told a U.S. Senate committee that it’s time to give consumers a bill of rights to protect their personal data and make it portable. “I think you can draft that user agreement,” Brian...
Public Knowledge’s Harold Feld seeks Digital Platform Act and a look to the past for reigning in behavior of platforms
A respected researcher and attorney at the open-Internet access group Public Knowledge says new laws, a new federal agency and a careful definition of the public interest are urgently needed to counter the growing monopoly-like power of digital platforms such as...
Local Media Consortium partners with ITEGA to establish first data-privacy protocol for news publishers
PRINTABLE VERSION / PRNEWSWIRE VERSION Multi-stakeholder group to convene in Washington, D.C. April 24-25; seeks input from thought leaders in publishing, advertising and consumer advocacy to strike new balance in trust, advertising and data privacy SIGNUP HERE...
OPPORTUNITY: Harvard’s Zuboff says big opportunity exists for collaborative alliance of companies to counter Google and Facebook on privacy
Harvard Business School emerita professor Shoshana Zuboff says there is a competitive opportunity for a privacy-respecting alliance of companies to counter Google, Facebook and other platforms she calls "surveillance capitalists" in her just-published book -- and such...
Unique effort to protect consumer privacy and support journalism gathers steam after Brooklyn meeting
A unique effort to protect consumer privacy and support journalism is gathering steam after a Jan. 15 meeting hosted by the NYC Media Lab in Brooklyn. (WHO PARTICIPATED) “We invited people we knew had the expertise, insight, and creativity to create a data...