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Datenschutz und Wettbewerb: Apple könnte Anti-Tracking-Abfrage in Deutschland entfernen Apple gab Nutzern einen Weg, Apps daran zu hindern, ihre Aktivitäten anderswo zu erfassen. Seitdem gibt es Streit. Jetzt könnten Wettbewerbs-Bedenken die Funktion in europäischen Ländern stoppen.

Data protection and competition: Apple could remove ATT (App Tracking Transparency) in Germany www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft... via @Tagesspiegel

The Sandbox's Death Meets Agentic Fever The future of ad tech privacy in a post-Sandbox world

Everyone's moved on from the Privacy Sandbox - and lots of us are now placing our energy into agentic as we attempt to overthrow the incumbents in the ads space with a new robot army.

Is there room for privacy in this new world? Have we learned from the mistakes of the past?

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Episode 51: What does "Apple in China" have to do with the digital media regulatory space? Journalist Patrick McGee joins host Alan Chapell to discuss his book "Apple in China" as Alan draws additional pearls of wisdom from Patrick's work that can be used…

This week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social podcast.

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@patrickmcgee.bsky.social shares a bit about his process for writing "Apple in China". There's a lesson for us regulatory folks as we try to share BIG ideas in a way that is digestible.

There's also lots of stuff about his fascinating book & Apple's stance on privacy and competition.

California makes browsers support the GPC Global Privacy Control just got a huge push

By 2027, browsers will be required to support GPC signals. Why only browsers - and not Mobile O/S or CTV platforms? .

It's complicated....

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California makes browsers support the GPC Global Privacy Control just got a huge push

By 2027 browsers will be required to support GPC signals.

Google probably won't make the GPC toggle quite so prominent (as it is in my pic)... and there are lots of things taking place in the background to consider. See my substack

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Episode 50: Part 2 - Jon Leibowitz on Antitrust and Privacy in today's digital media marketplace Alan Chapell continues his discussion with Jon Leibowitz on some of the key regulatory issues raised from 2004 - 2013. This includes the investigation re: Google Bu…

Btw, this is our 50th episode of the Monopoly Report podcast. Pretty cool, eh?

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On this week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social pod, we continue my discussion with former Chair of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz.

In this clip, we talk about where to set the bar in terms of privacy rules - where we make the point that having FEW rules or TOO STRINGENT rules tends to favor big tech.

Publishers' Last Stand Will Cloudflare's scarecrow save publishers from AI?

Antitrust law is increasingly less likely to save publishers. And all due respect to wikiHow, Google's not going to save them either....

So what will help? Collective Action and Technical Solutions.

Cloudflare's scarecrow may be part of the solution.

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Jon Leibowitz on the FTC from 2004 - 2013 A look at a different era - and the paths not taken

More thoughts on my interview with Jon Leibowitz on the Chapell Substack.

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I asked former FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz about how the Commission viewed Google's acquisition of DoubleClick back in 2008 - what he shared was eye opening to say the least!

Check out @monopolyreport.bsky.social podcast!

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Episode 49: Part 1 - Jon Leibowitz and the FTC's role during the early Google Era Host Alan Chapell is joined by Jon Leibowitz, former chair of the FTC to discuss the Commission's impact on the digital media landscape from 2004 until 2013. In par…

If you want to better understand WHY digital media is in this state, take a look at the period from 2004 to 2013 --- from Google's IPO to its acquisitions of DLCK, Admeld & Invite to the intitial antitrust investigation by the FTC that didn't bear fruit.

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Is the EU giving up on cookie consents? Lets try a bunch of radical ideas and see what works best.

We interrupt today's (great) coverage of the Google trial with some developments in Europe - as the EU Commission looks to revisit certain consent requirements for digital media.

We need to go further & re-think other vestiges of last era (e.g., icons on ads).

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RTB Control and other Tracking Technologies Google may weaponize a recent court settlement

More thoughts on Google's recent proposed court settlement that brings the RTB Control.... all in the name of privacy.

Why deceptively simple privacy tools are in fact, well... deceptive.

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So the Internet is now Cablevision circa 1987?

Episode 47: The Datatilsynet's Tobias Judin on consent This week, Tobias Judin from Norway's data protection regulator, the Datatilsynet (and EDPB representative), joins host Alan Chapell to talk about trust, (mis)alig…

My response may surprise you. Check out the whole interview at www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-47-t...

How do we fix digital media in the EU? In my view, the answer to that question should include experimentation. I was honored to have a thoughtful discussion with @tobiasjudin.bsky.social of Norway's data protection regulator (the Datatilsynet). Norway is considering a ban on behavioral ads.

My phone isn't ACTUALLY listening to my convos, right? Well.... it depends on how you frame that question

Whether my phone is actually listening to me is kind of besides the point. Check out my latest Substack.

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Google was right all along! Apparently, the reports of a Google breakup were... premature

I wrote some stuff about Judge Mehta's decision re: Google for @monopolyreport.bsky.social . Time to admit that any post Kahn/Kanter momentum re: antitrust has dissipated. Lot's more - also, I'll be talking about the decision w/Ari Paparo on the @marketecture.tv pod this week. tinyurl.com/37xek9hs

Justin Evans is a data optimist. His new book - The Little Book of Data - offers countless examples of how data solves problems & makes the world a better place. Naturally, I wanted to have him on TMR pod to see if I could pour a bit of cold water. (:

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Why Congress WILL pass a privacy law! The U.S. is fully committed to re-living the 1980's

Why I'm predicting that the U.S. Congress will pass a privacy law this September. (building off a great NY Times piece that - all due respect - buries the lede).

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Portlandia does a great job of satirizing a particular (at times, annoying) part of U.S. culture.

Mapping purposes to what end?

You are anything but lazy, my friend (:

I guess we need to define "worse" here. If more than one non-bundled consent is required, I'm not sure it really matters.

Tho the idea of implementing 12 separate consents would have made a great sketch for the EU version of Portlandia. (:

So we need a dozen separate consents?

The Fatal Flaw in the IAB TCF Why chasing consent in the EU has become a fools errand

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Here's a clip from my interview with @swodinsky.bsky.social - talking about the role of the technology team w/in the FTC.

Check out the whole @monopolyreport.bsky.social pod interview if you haven't yet.

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Fun with AI: Health Targeting Edition An argument against viewing AI as the new wild west for audience targeting

Some in the ads space are viewing AI as the next version of adtech three-card monte. I wanted to throw a bit of cold water on that concept.

newsletter focuses on the health targeting space -@monopolyreport.bsky.social

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Monopoly Round-Up: BOOM! Google Finally Loses Its App Store Monopoly Epic Games will launch an app store on Android after an appeals court upheld Google's loss in a monopolization case. Plus, Silicon Valley's sore winner problem, and anger at the big railroad merger.

"Populists were told the reason Obama-era enforcers wouldn’t bring cases is that judges would never accept wild theories of antitrust, even though those theories were binding precedent of older cases. It turns out that wasn’t true" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

Is AI friend or foe to audience creation? OR is AI simply masking the underlying problems in the ads space?

ad tech has moved through several audience creation eras: (1) behavioral targeting, (2) onboarding / DMP, (3) data science.

As of today, MOST of the talk about the next era - AI audience creation - is just that.... talk.

I'd love it if someone could change my mind.

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