The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering new privacy rules to protect Internet users against tracking. The ICCL/Open Markets/TACD submission reveals the impact of tracking-based online advertising to enable the FTC to act.
Landmark GDPR decision against “consent” spam to be heard at Europe’s highest court
The Brussels Court of Appeal dismisses various IAB Europe procedural grounds of appeal and agrees to refer our preliminary questions to the European Court of Justice.
ICCL report on the scale of Real-Time Bidding data broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe
New report: the $127 billion “Real-Time Bidding” online ad industry tracks & shares what people view online, and their locations, 178 Trillion times a year in the U.S. & Europe.
ICCL sues DPC over failure to act on massive Google data breach
The DPC failed to act on a complaint against Google’s huge RTB data breach. Now, over 3 years later, ICCL is taking the DPC to court to compel it to finally act.
Demand to global brand CEOs: stop unlawful consent spam and delete the data
ICCL & EPIC write to CEOs of P&G, Unilever, AT&T, BoA, Chevrolet, Ford, GM, IBM, and Mastercard, demanding they stop consent spam and delete data.
GDPR enforcers rule that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
IAB Europe can’t audit what 1000+ companies that use its TCF system do with our personal data
Thanks to Dr Panos Papadopoulos, Dr Krzysztof Franaszek, Zach Edwards, Dr Augustine Fou, Pete Snyder for their insights. Any mistakes are my own. 20 January 2022 This note describes why IAB Europe’s new “vendor compliance programme” is unable to establish transparency …
Tracking-industry body IAB Europe told that it has infringed the GDPR, and its “consent” pop-ups used by Google and other tech firms are unlawful.
Google and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which has now been found to be illegal. Update: final decision published on 2 February 2022. See note. 5 November 2021. We have won. The online advertising industry and its …
ICCL lawsuit takes aim at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the entire online advertising industry
15 June 2021 Dublin – Online advertising causes the world’s biggest data breach. Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is going to court in Germany to stop it. ICCL’s lawsuit takes aim at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T, and …
ICCL’s Dr Johnny Ryan keynotes European Parliament launch of Tracking-free Ads Coalition
2 February 2021 Dr Johnny Ryan gave a keynote speech at the launch of the European Parliament tracking-free ads coalition. The Coalition intends to investigate whether Europe should prevent online surveillance to protect privacy and better support journalism. Javier Espinoza …