This note analyses additional granular data from Dutch publisher NPO, and presents lessons for the publishing industry about privacy and revenue based on six months of data from a publishing group that removed 3rd party tracking.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
This note shares new data on publisher revenue impact from switching off 3rd party ad tracking.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Brave's submission to the UK Competition & Markets Authority shows how to fix the RTB market and end Google's advertising monopoly.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
This note highlights the inadequacies of Google and IAB proposals to reform RTB, and rebuts the argument for inaction.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
The ICO has today announced that it will be taking no substantive action to fix "RTB", the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK. Regulatory ambivalence cannot continue. We are considering all options to put an end to the systemic breach, including direct challenges to the controllers and judicial oversight of the ICO.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
This note examines the GDPR requirement that marketers conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) when buying digital media using “real-time bidding” advertising.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
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IAB Europe fails to answer questions from Irish Data Protection Commission arising from formal GDPR complaint by Brave's Dr Ryan against IAB Europe's "forced consent" and consent walls.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
This note summarizes the ICO report on real-time bidding, which vindicates the GDPR complaints initiated by Brave, and points toward the solution.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
DCN's CEO, Jason Kint, says removing personal data from bid requests might disadvantage adtech companies, but the sky won’t fall for publishers.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
GDPR complaints about Real-Time Bidding (RTB) in the online advertising industry were filed today with Data Protection Authorities in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The complaints detail the vast scale of personal data leakage by Google and other major companies in the “Ad Tech” industry.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
A formal complaint has been filed with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner against IAB Europe, the tracking industry’s primary lobbying organization.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Brave and co-complainants in Poland, Ireland, and the UK submit new evidence about massive adtech leakage of highly intimate data.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
French regulator’s decision against Vectaury confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent, and illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfu…| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS