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Social Media CEOs Testify at Contentious Child Safety Hearing
At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s most recent child safety hearing, lawmakers assert that social media companies are inadequately protecting young people from sexual predators, addictive features, suicide and eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, and bullying.
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IAB Introduces a Diligence Platform To Help Modernize Privacy Compliance
The IAB Diligence Platform last week at its Annual Leadership Meeting. To learn more about how the IAB Diligence Platform can benefit AdOps teams and the industry, we sat down with Michael Hahn, EVP and General Counsel, IAB, and Richy Glassberg, co-founder and CEO of SafeGuard Privacy.
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Inside the Buy Side
Six Things We Saw, Heard, and Digested at IAB ALM 2024
AdMonsters was in the room at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting 2024, soaking up every last nugget of wisdom. The importance of collaboration, unity, and direct engagement in creating standards was highlighted as the path to success, shaping the future of the digital economy. Brick by brick, together, we are finding solutions to some of the industry’s most pressing challenges. Following are six things we saw, heard and digested at IAB ALM 2024.
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What Is the IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox Demo Tool & How Does it Work?
The IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox Demo Tool, donated by Index Exchange, was developed to showcase Protected Audience API (PAAPI), a component of Google’s Privacy Sandbox. Using the tool, any ad tech professional can run through a demonstration of PAAPI to see how user interest groups are created and how relevant ads can reach consumers without cookies.
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Integral Ad Science’s Quality Attention and the Attention Payoff With Yannis Dosios, CCO of IAS
Brands gauge attention metrics through various parameters such as viewability, creative size, interaction, ad position, time of day, publisher or program, audibility, page clutter, device frequency, and eye tracking. We spoke with Yannis Dosios, Integral Ad Science’s CCO, to understand why attention metrics is the new hot commodity, the development of IAS’ Quality Attention Product, and how they plan to future-proof the tech.
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ChatGPT Under Fire for Allegedly Violating EU Privacy Laws
AI technology is evolving much faster than regulation can control. But regulators like Italy’s Data Protection Authority are working to ensure we can all reap AI’s benefits while complying with data ethics. Amid their lawsuit against the NYT, OpenAI faces privacy scrutiny in Europe after a multi-month investigation into ChatGPT’s data collection methods.
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Ad Tech Providers Respond to Consumer Malcontent with the State of Streaming
AdMonsters reported on consumers’ perceptions of TV streaming, and they cited many issues of concern, including seeing ads when they pay for subscriptions and the need to subscribe to multiple services. We asked multiple people who are providing advertising support to streaming providers about CTV advertising to respond to their concerns.
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What Is Iab Tech Lab’s Data Deletion Request Framework & How Will It Simplify Data Deletion?
There is currently no industry standard for completing data deletion requests. We caught up with Rowena Lam, IAB Tech Lab’s Senior Director of Privacy & Data, to see how they conducted this research, the findings, and the following steps to make a standard Data Deletion Request Framework a reality.
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It’s 2024, the Retail Media Revolution Is Here
Data is at the heart of the retail media revolution — not as cold numbers but as the lifeblood of personalized experiences. Every swipe, click, and step tells a story, guiding brands to create not just campaigns, but connections. This approach will propel marketing strategies that resonate, ensuring that product offerings, promotions, and interactions are not just relevant, but compellingly engaging.
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Google Admits That Chrome’s Incognito Mode Doesn’t Truly Camouflage Users Data
The Big G is updating the warning on Chrome’s Incognito Mode to inform consumers that they and other websites can still track digital users even in private mode. It directly addresses one of the major complaints in the class action lawsuit, which accused Google of not making it explicitly clear that Google collects data from users in private mode.
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