This much is certain: On Sunday afternoon, bipartisan lawmakers released a discussion draft of a broad national privacy bill that would override many state laws. What ...

The influential digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has long advocated for online privacy, is now calling for an outright ban on behavioral advertising. Behavioral targeting -- ...

Members of the European Parliament have hit out at online behavioral advertising, saying it could be a breach of consumers’ privacy rights. The Parliament’s Internal Market Committee approved a report ...

FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, on June 14, 2023. European officials widened a ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe on Wednesday, Nov.

Andy Atherton is COO of Brand.net, an online advertising network. A senior agency executive who manages the digital account for an Ad Age 50 CPG manufacturer recently delivered the best line I have ...

AT&T’s chief privacy officer told U.S. lawmakers Thursday that the company does not engage in behavioral advertising, but the company has apparently used the controversial technology to sell its ...

A coalition of privacy activists wants the FTC to do something about tracking consumer online activity, but that’s just the tip of the iceburg. The following quote is from the report “Consumer Rights ...

When you watch a video on Instagram, the app's algorithms are also watching you. As you scroll, they are hoovering up information to figure out what makes you tick—not only to show you content that ...

Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a somewhat tweaked set of self-regulation guidelines for companies collecting information on the actions of Internet users for the purpose of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — European officials ...