A request was made by India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information for company executives to respond to public concerns.
Concerns include that, 1) the ADPPA as a federal law would preempt state laws and provide weaker protections; 2) new data controls would hamper government access to deter major crimes; 3) there are too many loopholes in the law benefiting data brokers; and 4) placing limitations on the estimated $240 billion data market will severely hamper the use of third-party data for safety regulation – and also most importantly for advertising.
Twitter is grasping for its piece of the booming podcast industry with an expansion of its Spaces audio conversation hub. The service will include algorithmic recommendations of podcasts that users might like. Spaces works best on the Twitter mobile app, so if you don’t use that, you’re pretty much out of luck.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.