While many companies are preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to go into effect on January 1, there is another California law effective January 1 that is already causing companies to take action.
In less than five months on January 1, 2020, a landmark consumer privacy law will go into effect in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, has been likened to the GDPR and is similar to the sweeping EU law, at least in spirit.
In the run-up to its effective date, companies invested significant amounts of time and money in an effort to comply with the GDPR, but questions have remained about the sweeping EU data protection and privacy regulation.
If you’re a content marketer or content creator in the UK, you may have heard about a controversial EU directive known as Article 17 (previously referred to as Article 13 in draft).
2018 was the year of GDPR: the General Data Protection Regulation, a comprehensive update to privacy laws enacted by the European Union.
Just as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a highly-anticipated and far-reaching update to European privacy law, came into effect on May 25, 2018, another major change to consumer privacy was being enacted in the United States: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Last week, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it has launched an investigation into influencers who fail to disclose that they were compensated to post content on behalf of brands.
“Social media stars can have a big influence on what their followers do and buy. If people see clothes, cosmetics, a car, or a holiday being plugged by someone they admire, they might be swayed into buying it,” George Lusty, the CMA’s Senior Director for Consumer Protection, stated. “So, it’s really important they are clearly told whether a celebrity is promoting a product because they have bought it themselves, or because they have been paid or thanked in some way by the brand.”
Ad fraud, in all of its many forms, is one of the biggest threats to the digital ad industry – and perhaps its biggest.
By the most pessimistic of estimates, advertisers are losing upwards of a third of their digital ad spend to fraud despite the fact that all the major players in the industry have been trying to stamp it out for years.
On Thursday, the US Thursday Supreme Court issued a decision in a closely-watched case that overturned a prior ruling that online retailers have relied on to avoid collecting sales tax on online purchases.
We’ve been featuring some privacy experts on the Econsultancy blog, in the wake of GDPR enforcement.
Today it’s the turn of Andy Dale, General Counsel and VP Global Privacy for SessionM. Here he is giving us an insight into what his daily life looks like.
The GDPR hasn’t even been the law of the land in Europe for a full week and it is already causing confusion and chaos in parts of the digital economy.
Here are the headlines you need to know about as the impact of the GDPR starts being felt.
After months of anticipation and preparation, on Friday, the GDPR went into effect and privacy advocates, eager to put the law to the test, wasted no time challenging the practices of the internet’s two biggest names.
Hours after the GDPR became the law of the land, a non-profit organization called None Of Your Business (NOYB) lodged complaints against Google and Facebook, including Facebook subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp, with four different European authorities.