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Apple, which has been held up as a company leading the way in privacy transparency, is being questioned again about whether its efforts also rig the system in its own favor by limiting information access to outside developers. In this case, Germany’s competition regulator, Bundeskartellamt, is looking into whether a recently added privacy setting that requires developers to get user consent to access “Identifier for Advertisers” on an app-by-app basis gives Apple unfair advantage, since it can access information directly as first-party data.

Privacy Affairs’ annual Dark Web Price Index shows more vendors selling data, more types of items available, and cost for private data going down. Email dump volume is also up and cost is down.

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code bill, modeled on the UK’s AADC, and the state’s Social Media Duty Not to Addict Act passed the State House unanimously and are headed to the State Senate. On the federal level, The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would require companies to create tools for parents to monitor or curtail screen time, and two more bills, the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act and the Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act look to broaden protections covered by COPPA.  While... Read More >

If the claimants prevail, Google could be found in violation of California law and federal law.

The browser feature only allows trackers to see behavior on individual sites, rather than across sites.  It was previously available but users had to turn it on.

MediaMath’s customers will get pre-bid access to inventory segments on sites that meet their privacy standards, based on Sourcepoint’s Privacy Lens website ratings.