Comment on the IAB Tech Lab’s Global Privacy Platform (GPP)

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Summary

The Global Privacy Platform is intended to absorb the functionality of TCF and expand on it, as a consent-string-based privacy solution. While GPP expands the scope that the system can cover it does not resolve any of the intrinsic problems of…

Comment on the IAB Tech Lab’s Global Privacy Platform (GPP)

September 02 Comments Off on Comment on the IAB Tech Lab’s Global Privacy Platform (GPP) Category: Feed

Summary

The Global Privacy Platform is intended to absorb the functionality of TCF and expand on it, as a consent-string-based privacy solution. While GPP expands the scope that the system can cover it does not resolve any of the intrinsic problems of…

“Unfortunately, Twitter’s decision to pull the plug on Politwoops is a reminder of how the Internet…”

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“Unfortunately, Twitter’s decision to pull the plug on Politwoops is a reminder of how the Internet isn’t truly a public square. Our shared conversations are increasingly taking place in privately owned and managed walled gardens, which means that the politics that occur in such conversations are subject to private rules. (In this case, Twitter’s terms of service for usage of its API.)”

– Sunlight Foundation