Tag Archives: Privacy

Google’s shift away from cookies and personal ad IDs

| March 9, 2021

In a move that has the industry buzzing (again!) about how we use data to build personalised ads, Google has announced that “once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.” Essentially, Google will stop […]

Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ Invigorates Data Transparency Debate

| August 23, 2019

Tech giants have to tread a fine line between protecting user privacy and offering up enough user data to entice advertisers. Although people have become increasingly wary of how their data is harvested, they’re rarely willing to pay for ad-free website access. Advertisers, for their part, still require access to user data to justify their […]