Privacy tool webXray is aiming to find unwanted web tracking to increase personal privacy protections on the internet, Wired reports. Former Google staff privacy engineer and webXray founder Tim Libert said the tool aims to "give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators."Full story
Members of the Digital Advertising Alliance will soon experience a major shift in how they deliver targeted advertisements to consumers. The DAA is launching a browser-based extension called WebChoices 2.0 that will replace current cookie-based opt-out mechanisms, which is expected to be released for general availability in late 2024.
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission announced it will begin implementation of the Simple Certification of Information Protection and Personal Information Protection Management System 24 July.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is asking the leaders of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to testify as to how an outage that caused wide-ranging disruptions in airlines, banking and more occurred, The New York Times reports.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe called on Google to work with the advertising industry to set standards around privacy and data collection after the company walked back plans to phase out third-party cookies. The IAB said the focus should be on a user's control of their data and to evaluate its impact on competition.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ordered eight companies to provide information on their development of "surveillance pricing" tools. The FTC seeks information regarding the tools' reliance on advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence, as well as personal information, to target prices for a good or service to consumers based on compiled data points.Full story
Google is reversing course on plans to phase out third-party cookies. The company announced 22 July cookies will remain while pivoting toward efforts to enhance user privacy and maintain advertising models through "an informed choice that applies across (consumer) web browsing." IAPP News Editor Joe Duball reports on Google's shift following a phaseout initiative that spanned five years.Full story
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced the body will hold a full vote on the proposed Kids Online Safety Act and the Children's and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act, with a cloture vote to end debate coming as early as 25 July.
The European Commission unveiled a proposed voluntary AI Pact for high-risk artificial intelligence developers can enter into prior to enforcement of the EU AI Act.
Officials from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission issued a joint statement calling out competition risks they see in the artificial intelligence sector.