Information Policy

ePrivacy and digital innovation must be in balance

ePrivacy is crucial in the digital era we live in. Any regulation in this area needs to be pro-innovation and future-proof. The compromise package on the ePrivacy Directive presented in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has failed to meet these requirements. This is why the EPP Group did not support the Report today.

European Parliament Committee’s approach on ePrivacy would harm European media and citizens

Brussels, 19 October 2017 --   IAB Europe regrets today’s decision by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) to back amendments that would force news and other European websites to provide their content for free.

Information Economy Report 2017

These are still the early days of the digital economy. But already it is clear that it has had, and will continue to have, globally transformative impacts on the way we live, work and develop our economies.

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by Lindsay Rowntree

While the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its ‘baby sister’, the ePrivacy Regulation, may be full of ambiguous, legal jargon, one thing is clear: if you collect data from EU citizens, then your world is going to look a whole lot different come 25 May, 2018. Even though most of the articles contained in both regulations are troubling for the online advertising industry, there’s one section of the GDPR that’s especially worrying – the one about user consent. Maciej Zawadziński, CEO, Clearcode, explains why, exclusively for ExchangeWire.

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Brussels, 7 September 2017 – Obstructing the collection and use of data in digital advertising would have serious and unintended consequences for the EU economy, for Europe’s independent media, and for the accessibility of the internet itself. These are the findings of new research exploring the likely impact of the ePrivacy Regulation proposed earlier this year by the European Commission as the next iteration of the infamous cookie law (Directive 2002/58/EC).
 

The GDPR Will Drain the Ad Tech Cookie Pool

by Lindsay Rowntree

While the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its ‘baby sister’, the ePrivacy Regulation, may be full of ambiguous, legal jargon, one thing is clear: if you collect data from EU citizens, then your world is going to look a whole lot different come 25 May, 2018. Even though most of the articles contained in both regulations are troubling for the online advertising industry, there’s one section of the GDPR that’s especially worrying – the one about user consent. Maciej Zawadziński, CEO, Clearcode, explains why, exclusively for ExchangeWire.

IAB Europe: The dire unintended consequences of restricting data-driven ads

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Brussels, 7 September 2017 – Obstructing the collection and use of data in digital advertising would have serious and unintended consequences for the EU economy, for Europe’s independent media, and for the accessibility of the internet itself. These are the findings of new research exploring the likely impact of the ePrivacy Regulation proposed earlier this year by the European Commission as the next iteration of the infamous cookie law (Directive 2002/58/EC).