PRIVACY
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Staff / WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy After Backlash
On January 15, WhatsApp announced it would delay its recent privacy policy update after users raised concerns about the app sharing data with its parent company, Facebook. Originally, users were required to consent to the policy by February 8 or their accounts would stop working. Users voiced their concern about ... Read More
Alliance Files Comments on California Consumer Privacy Act
Today, in response to the California Attorney General’s rulemaking process to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the News Media Alliance submitted written comments with the Attorney General regarding the CCPA and its effect on news publishers ... Read More
Staff / CCPA Sample Op-Ed
Download our sample op-ed here: http://www.newsmediaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FINAL_CCPA-Op-Ed-001.docx ... Read More
Big Tech Sneaks Broad Immunities into the NAFTA Agreement
The renegotiations to NAFTA raise some serious concerns for newspapers, while also including positive news for news organizations with regards to fair use ... Read More
Tradeoffs between personal data privacy and customer analytics.
There are additional costs from capturing data in the loss of privacy a customer experiences from being tracked. What are the benefits and costs of this lost privacy? ... Read More
Data Leakage May Increase Ad-Blocking Adoption
A practice referred to as “data leakage” is particularly harmful to the publisher/reader relationship. Data leakage occurs when a publisher of a website unknowingly grants an advertiser, or other third party, access to its readers’ information without consent from or benefit to the publisher. An advertiser or an advertising network ... Read More