The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing Tuesday on "Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy," in which a somewhat disjointed assortment of witnesses testified on the existing gaps related to financial institutions and consumer privacy. And whil...

At a U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing Tuesday, lawmakers sought answers from witnesses on the ways companies are monetizing users' personal data and whether consumers should have more choice in the matter as Congress looks toward crafting a federal privacy law — at some point.  At the...

In an excellent IAPP podcast interview by Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, Woody Hartzog makes the compelling point that informed consent was originally developed for rare, high-risk and potentially life-threatening situations, like surgery and medical research. Hartzog argues that the process of informed...

Anyone paying attention to the ad tech space, particularly on Twitter, could easily tell you there's been a growing tension among its players on the future of the industry.  The central issue seems to center around whether ad tech can continue to operate as it has before the EU shifted its legal la...

In scenes reminiscent of the last days of GDPR drafting, lobbyists from the advertising industry queued up to give European plans for the ePrivacy regulation a kicking. The Future Media Lounge event sponsored by EDAA (the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance) focused on “the potential ...