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Political Advertisers Promoted Polarization. Now We Need To Help Fix It

AdExchanger

The 2016 presidential election gave Americans a taste of the disinformation, misinformation and platform manipulation that’s coming for political media. These strategies aren’t new, but tactics are more effective than ever.

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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Clearcode

In the early days of programmatic advertising, ad targeting was limited to the context of the webpage and information about the user from the user-agent string (e.g., an IP address for location). The GDPR came into effect two years later on May 25, 2018, and has changed the way companies collect, store and use personal data.

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Is Microtargeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?

Ad Monsters

It is illegal, for example, for advertisers to use language in their ads suggesting that jobs, housing, or credit opportunities are being offered to people of a certain race, gender, or age or in other protected categories. But ad targeting means that advertisers can hide their preferences in the algorithm.

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CFPB Warning to Consumer Financial Services Digital Marketing Providers

All About Advertising Law

As explained by the CFPB, “the use of algorithms and business-specific data to determine when to display a specific business’ ads to specific consumers to affect consumer engagement extends well beyond the activities performed by a traditional media source.”.

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6 Alternatives to Third-Party Cookies and Mobile IDs in AdTech

Clearcode

2006: Popular ad-blocking software, Adblock Plus, launches. 2016: The European Union publishes its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), setting off a two-year countdown to its enforcement. This type of secure data collaboration can power many programmatic advertising processes, such as ad targeting and measurement.

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Is Micro-targeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?

Ad Monsters

It is illegal, for example, for advertisers to use language in their ads suggesting that jobs, housing, or credit opportunities are being offered to people of a certain race, gender, or age or in other protected categories. But ad targeting means that advertisers can hide their preferences in the algorithm.

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What if… things turned out differently for AppNexus

Digiday

The ad tech vendor was unlike any other ad tech vendor around. It had built customisable solutions for media buyers (it was the first ad tech vendor to support custom algorithms for digital ad targeting and programmatic bidding) and embedded itself with publishers through direct integrations.

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