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Jul 24, 2020
This note analyses additional granular data from Dutch publisher NPO, and presents lessons for the publishing industry about privacy and revenue based on six months of data from a publishing group that removed 3rd party tracking.
Jul 1, 2020
This note shares new data on publisher revenue impact from switching off 3rd party ad tracking.
Jun 22, 2020
Following a court decision on Friday, it is now highly likely that California will curtail "cross-context behavioral advertising”.
Jun 15, 2020
Procter & Gamble invited Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave to give a (remote) keynote about how advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future.
May 20, 2020
Senior representatives of advertisers, publishers, and intermediaries discuss two years of the the GDPR in a discussion hosted by Brave.
Apr 27, 2020
New data from Brave reveals that European governments have not equipped their national authorities to enforce the GDPR. Brave has called on the European Commission to launch an infringement procedure against 27 European governments.
Mar 16, 2020
Brave filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
Feb 18, 2020
Brave has written to the US Senate and Congress Homeland Security Committees about a serious national security vulnerability.
Feb 4, 2020
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. "Surveillance on UK council websites", a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companies’ surveillance of UK citizens when they seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty from their local government authorities.
Jan 21, 2020
This note highlights the inadequacies of Google and IAB proposals to reform RTB, and rebuts the argument for inaction.
Jan 17, 2020
The ICO has today announced that it will be taking no substantive action to fix "RTB", the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK. Regulatory ambivalence cannot continue. We are considering all options to put an end to the systemic breach, including direct challenges to the controllers and judicial oversight of the ICO.
Nov 13, 2019
Brave has written to the US Senate and Congress Homeland Security Committees about a serious national security vulnerability.
Nov 11, 2019
Ryan's tells leaders from ten parliaments: the RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.
Oct 29, 2019
Brave has written to the Attorney General of California to highlight a critical omission in the CCPA regulations proposed last week.
Oct 15, 2019
Brave has written to the Attorney General of California to highlight a critical omission in the CCPA regulations proposed last week.
Oct 10, 2019
Brave has written to EU Member States to urge the prohibition of cookie walls, and the inclusion of privacy by default, in the ePrivacy Regulation.
Oct 7, 2019
This note presents a submission from Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave, and Dr Orla Lynskey of the London School of Economics, to the UK Competition & Markets Authority.
Sep 24, 2019
This note examines the GDPR requirement that marketers conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) when buying digital media using “real-time bidding” advertising.
Sep 4, 2019
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
Aug 13, 2019
Dr Johnny Ryan responds to IAB Europe. Four months on, both I and the Data Protection Commission are still waiting for the first explanation of how “IAB Europe is confident that the way it obtains consent for the use of cookies on its website complies with the requirements of the law”.
Aug 9, 2019
Formal GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s “cookie wall” and GDPR consent guidance.
Jun 26, 2019
This note summarizes the ICO report on real-time bidding, which vindicates the GDPR complaints initiated by Brave, and points toward the solution.
Jun 19, 2019
DCN's CEO, Jason Kint, says removing personal data from bid requests might disadvantage adtech companies, but the sky won’t fall for publishers.
Jun 17, 2019
Brave has responded to questions for the record from the US Senate Judiciary Committee from Senators Whitehouse, Booker, Graham and Leahy.
May 22, 2019
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
May 21, 2019
Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave testified today at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy”.
May 20, 2019
GDPR complaints about Real-Time Bidding (RTB) in the online advertising industry were filed today with Data Protection Authorities in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The complaints detail the vast scale of personal data leakage by Google and other major companies in the “Ad Tech” industry. This week marks one year since the introduction of the GDPR.
Apr 16, 2019
Brave writes to the California Senate Judiciary Committee, opposing a new adtech exemption in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). Brave also co-signs today's letter from 28 technology companies supporting the Privacy For All amendment to fix loopholes in the CCPA.
Apr 1, 2019
Formal GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s “cookie wall” and GDPR consent guidance.
Mar 28, 2019
The cover story of The Economist this week includes a diagram of the "data protection-free zone" at the heart of the online advertising auction system.
Mar 8, 2019
Brave has written to the California Department of Justice to highlight potential loopholes in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).
Feb 20, 2019
New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”.
Jan 28, 2019
Brave and co-complainants in Poland, Ireland, and the UK submit new evidence about massive adtech leakage of highly intimate data.
Jan 22, 2019
Big tech companies "cross-use" user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.
Dec 4, 2018
Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.
Dec 3, 2018
Brave and a coalition of more than 30 businesses and organizations urges European Governments to break the deadlock on the ePrivacy Regulation in an open letter.
Nov 20, 2018
French regulator's decision against Vectaury confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent, and illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time bidding system” (RTB).
Nov 6, 2018
Brave presents the case for a US federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, protecting innovation, interoperability, and supporting US leadership.
Oct 10, 2018
Brave's submission to Margrethe Vestager, the EU Anti-Trust Chief.
Oct 1, 2018
Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to present the case for GDPR-like data protection standards in the United States.
Sep 12, 2018
Simultaneous complaints have been filed with European data protection authorities against Google and other ad tech firms under the GDPR
Sep 6, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on September 5th with Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer.
Sep 4, 2018
Today, Brave writes to the IAB (an ad tech trade body) in response to IAB TechLab’s request for feedback on the beta version of OpenRTB 3.0.
Jul 16, 2018
17 July 2018: Brave wrote to the governments of each of the twenty eight Member States of the European Union yesterday and today to express its concern about privacy.
Jul 15, 2018
16 July 2018: A ruling of the European Court of Justice last month exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.
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