Also helping to fight back: Ghostery has launched Midnight, which expands ad blocking and privacy protection features beyond the browser to include desktop applications. The product also includes a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to further obscure online activity.
The News Gods clearly have a better union than you or I, Dear Reader, since we’re back at work today and they’re still on holiday break. They did telegram one real piece of news: CDP vendor BlueConic has raised a $13 million Series B, bringing total funding to $25 million.
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In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.