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The ICO’s new adtech report to the UK government contains important lessons, also for legislators & regulators from all over Europe. Its suggestion is to foresee a consent exemption under ePrivacy rules (PECR in the UK) for “first-party” use of storage & processing capabilities of a device for the following purposes, if certain safeguards are […]
Privacy-enhancing technologies: “death by ePrivacy”? PETs were on the agenda of the IAPP DPC24 in Brussels this week, but few talked about the dangers to PETs caused by evolving positions of regulators. PETs (for ads with less data, content-focussed analytics, etc.) are being worked on by companies of all backgrounds and sizes and touted as […]
Significant news from the ICO re Meta: lower price than EU, and no “less personalised ads” offering… in the UK. The “Pay or OK” type of approach is alive and well over there (in this case: for Facebook & Instagram). Compared to the EU approach, it looks like the UK regulator has taken a pragmatic stance […]
One month into the summer consultation process (thanks EU Commission & others!), a few thoughts on the ICO’s online advertising consultation. There is still one month to respond to the “call for views” from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (soon “Information Commission”) regarding its approach to regulating online advertising: https://lnkd.in/evScibNJ I cannot stress enough the […]
The European Commission’s announcement that it will consider simplifying regulatory regimes, notably in relation to data and technology, seems to open Pandora’s box. Is it a chance to draw lessons from what works well and what works less well? In this series on “Better Regulation” in relation to the digital economy, I will be exploring […]
Time to talk about what can be done to improve the “cookie” rule! In Part I of this series on the opportunities and difficulties of today’s ePrivacy regime, I discussed the underappreciated and seemingly-easy-but-really-complex world of the anti-spam rule, Article 13 of the ePrivacy Directive (or ePD). This Part II is about a provision that […]
“We want to encourage publishers to deploy more privacy-preserving advertising such as contextual models, and we will explore where the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) consent requirements are preventing such a shift”. Thank you, Information Commissioner’s Office, for showing openness to this issue. Regulators in the EU, the UK and even the USA have […]
