We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Digiday / Tim Peterson
/ Mar 27“Under GDPR, for Google to sell targeted ads to publishers’ European readers, it needs to obtain their permission. Legal experts said it’s legal for Google to obtain that consent secondhand. Google also said that it would accept the role of co-controller of that data for publishers using its DoubleClick ad server and AdX ad exchange. That joint controller role means Google is taking ownership of the data and can do what it likes with it.” —
Tags:
Europe,
European Union,
GDPR,
General Data Protection Regulation,
Google,
platforms,
privacy
