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A German court has ruled sharing IP addresses with US-based servers for cookie consent is unlawful under Schrems II. The Wielsbaden Administrative Court found that a German university using a cookie preference service that shared IP addresses of end users with a company headquartered in the US was in violation because users could be identified by using the IP addresses and a key that is stored in the user’s browser.

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The US and allies have elevated concerns about cybercriminals to the level of national security. This week, the US Cyber Command’s top general confirmed the military in cooperation with law enforcement is tracking ransomware groups. Canada imposed similar measures, and Ireland stepped up its activities following cyberattacks that disrupted healthcare in the country. Concerns have grown as infrastructure that promotes critical services, such as healthcare and pipelines, have been targeted.

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With twin goals of safely harnessing the power of data for business and combating critical transnational privacy concerns, the White House and UK announced the joint prize challenge to develop privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). The initiative is intended to encourage top minds to evolve new solutions to address global privacy issues ranging from financial crime to health data security. First winners will be announced next year.

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In the latest crackdown on Big Tech overreach, Italy’s anti-trust regulator charged Amazon $1.28 billion for alleged abuse of market dominance. Amazon has denied the claim that it leveraged its dominant position in the Italian marketplace to favor adoption of its own fulfillment service over others.

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A DataDome survey conducted by Forrester found 84% of enterprise firms are prioritizing customer experience (CX) and app experience along with bot detection and management (79%). One key finding is that bots are being used to target high-profile events by using card, inventory and account fraud.

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The family safety app used globally by 33 million people to track their children’s movements via cellphone, is in fact selling that data to more than a dozen data brokers according to former employees as reported by The Markup.

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The Inrupt platform is intended to give individual consumers the ability to store and control their data via what the company calls Personal Online Datastores (PODs), which will connect with decentralized applications and allow users to decouple their data at will. This fully open and collective web (aka Web3) proposes a way to a new internet era including adaptation to regulatory controls.

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This helps with privacy regulation compliance, since logs are often a major source of unintentional sensitive data exposure.

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The list included movie review platform, Douban; karaoke service provider, Changba; and news aggregator Kankan News.

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Global warming. Rampant authoritarianism. Endless pandemic. It’s impressive that some people find time to worry about measuring TV audiences. So thumbs up to OpenAP, which just launched a framework to target and measure all types of TV audiences and signed up a slew of media agencies, media companies, and measurement vendors to cooperate. Called XPm, the platform lets advertisers work with an audience of 290 million identities, which can be linked with other firms’ first-party data in various privacy-safe ways.

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In other obscure but probably important adtech news, Criteo is negotiating a $380 million deal to buy IPONWEB, a major developer of ad exchange, marketplace, and bidding technologies. The deal will help Criteo replace its third-party-cookie-based retargeting business with something more suited to the future – possibly using retail media networks as an alternative to the Facebook/Google/Amazon walled gardens.

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Back on more familiar turf, how about a nice Adobe study that reports marketers are struggling to get value from technology? Yup, 65% say they feel their productivity is harmed by having too many technology options and 65% also say they can’t keep up with tech changes. Despite the problems, 79% say they regularly use data to make marketing decisions and 77% use it to demonstrate marketing’s value to the rest of the business. Download for more.

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