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Children’s Privacy: UK regulators provisionally find TikTok in violation of children’s privacy laws – up to $29M at stake

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have issued a Notice of Intent, covering a period between 2018-2020, to Chinese-owned TikTok, which means a likely significant fine. In this case that could be as high as £27 million ($29 million), depending on determinations about violation of privacy regulation. TikTok may have committed multiple infractions, including processing data of underage children without parental consent, accessing specially protected information on race or ethnicity, and collecting biometric data without legitimate cause to do so. Depending on the regulator’s determination, cost could be quite high.

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IAB’s Global Privacy Platform is ready for adoption!

October 4, 2022

IAB’s Global Privacy Platform (GPP), which enables user consent signals to be communicated through the digital supply chain, is finalized and ready for industry adoption. This is a major development for ad tech companies and was developed with input from companies throughout the ad ecosystem. Specifically, the GPP provides details on privacy signals – including standard data types used for encoding privacy strings and standard mechanisms for senders and receivers of those strings. Right now, this includes information for US Privacy and IAB Europe TCF consent strings, but IAB has... Read More >

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Microsoft Lets Publishers Block Bing Chat Separately from Bing Search

September 26, 2023

Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content.   But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines.  Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results.  We’ll see if competitors do the same.

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