CDP Institute

Turkey’s parliament just passed amendments that raise significant human rights concerns for changes to laws governing censorship, journalism, and social media. This includes empowering its government with the ability to compel social media companies to comply with requests to take down online content and hand over user data. And, companies unwilling to comply, can face “internet throttling,” which means their company bandwidth would be clipped.

Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey of 2600 adults in 12 countries, found 84% of consumers equate how a company handles their data with how much they are valued by that company – a number that increased ten percentage points since 2019. Close to half of all surveyed, 43%, don’t feel able to protect their data due to lack of corporate transparency.

Kid data is the low hanging fruit for the digital ad industry and for Big Tech that want to vacuum up mass amounts of data. That’s because it’s largely available and often untended. In fact, estimates are that on average by the time a person is 13 years old, companies can have collected more than 72 million data points about them. Like many of us, security firm Disconnect has a problem with that, and their brand new Do Not Track Kids app is designed to stop it easily, efficiently and... Read More >

In more good news for protecting children’s data, fraud protection company Pixalate has published the first of what will be a monthly index that benchmarks sellers based on the percentage of ads they sell on apps that are likely child-directed, according to Pixalate’s child audience risk assessment.

Its client list, which ranges from mid-market up to global enterprise companies, includes Salesforce, New Balance, Instacart, Skillshare and MyFitnessPal.

This includes more than 500,000 locations deemed privacy-sensitive, including women’s health centers, religious locations, and those tied to education, children’s, and social services.

The IAB Privacy’s Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA) and IAB Tech Lab’s US State Signals initiative have been released as part of the organization’s Global Privacy Platform (GPP).

This year’s survey lists 364 privacy technology vendors, but indicators are that the privacy vendor market is trending toward more consolidation and more specialized solutions.