This note announces my departure from Brave to take up two new roles. After a little more than over two years at Brave, I have moved to new roles at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Open Markets Institute. The peculiarities of the GDPR, and Ireland’s place in the global economy, mean that regulatory inaction in … Continue reading Farewell Brave.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
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
Procter & Gamble invited Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave to give a (remote) keynote address about how advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future.The presentation covers the problems with conventional advertising technology, risks to brands and media sustainability, and sets out several alternative models. See the video here. For reasons made clear in this keynote presentation, … Continue reading Johnny Ryan’s privacy keynote for P&G| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Brave has written to the Attorney General of California to highlight a critical omission in the CCPA regulations proposed last week.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
Dr Johnny Ryan's testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy”.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
This note summarizes the ICO report on real-time bidding, which vindicates the GDPR complaints initiated by Brave. In September 2018, ... The post A summary of the ICO report on RTB – and what happens next appeared first on Fix AdTech.| Fix AdTech
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s “DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers” advertising ... The post Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority for “suspected infringement” of the GDPR, following formal complaint from Brave appeared first on Fix AdTech.| Fix AdTech
Further new evidence drawn from sample bid requests in Google and IAB’s own documentation reveals the personal data in bid ... The post New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”. appeared first on Fix AdTech.| Fix AdTech
Panoptykon Foundation filed a new complaint with the Polish Data Protection Authority today, joining the ad auction complaints already being ...| Fix AdTech