Owners of websites and mobile applications that utilize cookies and other tracking technologies, e.g., pixels, app SDKs (tracking technologies), for interest-based advertising and other activities inherently share data across the digital ecosystem and will have to address these activities as part of their greater California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance approach. In particular, the CCPA’s … Continue Reading
Liftopia, an e-commerce platform that enables ski resorts to sell advance-purchase tickets online, was cited in a recent decision by the Better Business Bureau’s Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program (OIBAAP) for failing to provide consumers with sufficient notice and choice relating to the collection of data for targeted ads and the serving of interest-based advertising … Continue Reading
By Alan L. Friel and F. Paul Pittman on Posted in Mobile Privacy
In a prior post we noted the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) intention, late last year, to begin enforcement of the Application of Self-Regulatory Principles to the Mobile Environment (Mobile App Guidelines), which apply to all participants in the mobile advertising ecosystem. The DAA recently followed through on this promise by issuing its inaugural enforcement decision … Continue Reading
Gone are the days of single-browser tracking. Accordingly, cross-device tracking – the process of tracking a single consumer across all of the consumer’s devices – is the new Holy Grail for marketers. Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a U.S. advertising industry self-regulatory program, have taken notice. On November … Continue Reading
Effective September 1, 2015, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) is now enforcing its Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising and Multi-Site Data (collectively, the “Principles”) in the mobile ecosystem. The DAA, a cross-industry, self-regulatory group of advertising and media companies, has until now focused its enforcement of the Principles exclusively on the desktop browser environment. … Continue Reading