The Information Trust Exchange Project — Editors, researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and journalism advocates taking on the task of making a new market for digital information. Governed by a public-benefit consortium. Committed to respecting individual identity and privacy.
"PRIVACY TOWN" -- Can a news organization become its community’s “privacy protector” . . . cut down on ad fraud . . . and reach new readers, viewers and users with trustworthy services? ITEGA considers testing.
Read MoreApple pressing down on tracking with both Safari and its new Sign In With Apple — could it have “unintended impact” on competing Single Sign On (SSO) services?
New browser and login initiatives by Apple appear to be aimed at crushing third-party tracking of users. It’s a bid to make Apple’s Safari browser software more tuned into emerging user-privacy interests. But what could be the “unintended impact” — to use Apple’s own...
In new version of “browser wars,” publishers are advised to think about ways to help manage user data — is “SSO” one approach?
EDITOR'S NOTE -- Three factors-- the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the impending California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and a new willingness on the part of web-browser software makers to act on user privacy preferences -- are threatening the...
COOKIES: Ad-tech companies fighting over who gets control of first-party “cookie” or identity; a role for ITEGA?
A competitive war is underway among titans of the ad-tech industry -- and at least one scrappy startup -- over who will emerge in control as the era of third-party cookie matching is squelched by tough European and U.S.-based privacy regulation. The goal is to...
Major publisher group DCN says “sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to non-personal data; calls for evolution from status quo
The head of the biggest group that represents digital operations of major U.S. publishers says not to heed the “sky is falling” message from ad-tech companies and turn instead to “evolving” from the status quo of Real Time Bidding. “Ad market is unhealthy, lots of...
Pre-law student’s paper examines the potential for constitutional challenge to CCPA | No firm conclusion
Could application of the U.S. Constitution’s interstate commerce clause — generally leaving nationwide business exchange to Congress to regulate — de-rail the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)? That’s the question posed in a legal review by a University of...
Big tech, others, seek CCPA changes to allow trading of “premium features” for user data; open up use of publicly available information
Two important efforts to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have emerged — and one of them may affect the sale of premium content. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber and Lyft are pushing at least eight amendments in the California Legislature in...
Key ad-tech inventor says consumers need protection; Senate panel probes data privacy and competition
The inventor of real-time bidding (RTB) and other online ad tech has told a U.S. Senate committee that it’s time to give consumers a bill of rights to protect their personal data and make it portable. “I think you can draft that user agreement,” Brian...
Public Knowledge’s Harold Feld seeks Digital Platform Act and a look to the past for reigning in behavior of platforms
A respected researcher and attorney at the open-Internet access group Public Knowledge says new laws, a new federal agency and a careful definition of the public interest are urgently needed to counter the growing monopoly-like power of digital platforms such as...
Local Media Consortium partners with ITEGA to establish first data-privacy protocol for news publishers
PRINTABLE VERSION / PRNEWSWIRE VERSION Multi-stakeholder group to convene in Washington, D.C. April 24-25; seeks input from thought leaders in publishing, advertising and consumer advocacy to strike new balance in trust, advertising and data privacy SIGNUP HERE...
Unique effort to protect consumer privacy and support journalism gathers steam after Brooklyn meeting
A unique effort to protect consumer privacy and support journalism is gathering steam after a Jan. 15 meeting hosted by the NYC Media Lab in Brooklyn. (WHO PARTICIPATED) “We invited people we knew had the expertise, insight, and creativity to create a data...
jarvis
WHAT JEFF JARVIS SAID IN 2015: Could this be a case for ITEGA? “But keep in mind where the real value is: in the relationship, in knowing what people — individuals and communities, not a faceless, anonymous mass — need and want and know so you can give them relevance...
VALUES
Trust, identity, privacy, information commerce: A look at ITEGA’s values, principles and priorities News organizations, in their struggle to monetize their content, have allowed large tech platforms to continually track, compare, and aggregate data about their...
‘Data integrity’ vs. surveillance? Race to the Top seeks to help investors learn how to profit from privacy and transparency
At a Silicon Valley meeting, founders, funders and others at a Mozilla meeting envision a better future for web, turning away from data surveillance with entities that help manage privacy and identity A summary by Bill Densmore, executive director, ITEGA.org MOUNTAIN...