ADPPA

The CEOs of the three largest advertising trade orgs – IAB, ANA and 4A’s – agree that we need a federal privacy law. They just don’t agree on exactly how to get there.

Video and CTV bring challenges and opportunities for notice and choice. And doubts persist about whether the industry can self-regulate on the issue.

Based on TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday, Congress isn’t buying TikTok’s claims of independence. And US legislators have no faith in any of TikTok’s proposals for safeguarding US user data.

Notice and choice just got dragged at a House subcommittee hearing on privacy. Rep. Frank Pallone called it “coercive.”

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From the Federal Trade Commission’s plan to regulate privacy in the absence of a federal privacy law to Apple’s intimations about cracking down on fingerprinting, these are seven stories that sent ripples through the ad tech ecosystem in 2022 – and will keep on rippling in 2023.

The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act and efforts to change Google’s and Apple’s mobile advertising practices would force companies to adopt new practices and technologies to understand and act on consumer identity. Mathieu Roche, co-founder and CEO at ID5, dives into each initiative and its implications.

The US data privacy landscape is chaotic. The future of the recently proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act is now decidedly up in the air, and states are passing their own privacy laws in the absence of a federal one, which makes compliance complicated. Federal agencies like the FTC are also trying to fill the data privacy rulemaking void.

The US is long overdue for a federal privacy law, but the American Data Privacy and Protection Act might not be it. Considering the midterms are two months away, it’s unlikely we’ll see a full vote on the House floor before the election. And so we asked the experts: If the ADPPA doesn’t pass soon, what happens next?