Data Privacy Roundup

Rather than directly managing risk and regulatory compliance as a traditional chief privacy would do, Ron De Jesus is like a liaison between Transcend and the CPO community.

Google has said publicly that it will eventually (“soon”) adopt a national approach to privacy compliance in the US. That’s a big deal – but only if Google actually does it.

The APRA is the first serious attempt at a compromise to pass national privacy legislation since the American Data Privacy and Protection Act failed to advance last year.

I spent the week in Washington, DC, attending two privacy- and public policy-focused events and I have a single takeaway from both: Enforcement. Is. Coming.

Here’s some free legal advice from a privacy lawyer: Don’t make privacy claims if you’re not going to stick to them.

If you weren’t able to tune in to the FTC’s PrivacyCon event last week – it was a seven-hour affair, after all – then worry not. We gotchoo.

“Compliance doesn’t have to be a chore, and legal can be a strategic partner,” says Jamie Lieberman, chief legal officer at ad management and monetization platform Mediavine.

We caught up with IAB Tech Lab CEO Tony Katsur in the wake of a new bombshell report that claims the Chrome Privacy Sandbox is not fit for purpose.

With the final phaseout set for the end of this year and multiple new state privacy laws now in effect, privacy lawyers (and privacy pros in general) are gonna be busy.

Contextual targeting today is way more advanced than what was available a decade ago. So, what could the FTC’s COPPA Rule proposal mean for contextual advertising to kids?