Weather Channel Location Data Lawsuit Signals Stormy Times Ahead
Jan 7 2019 | Can Facebook be considered responsible to have opened the privacy Pandora’s box? Read full article on AdExchanger and available here.
Amazon reveals how many Alexa devices have been sold: 100 million
Jan 7, 2019 | With Amazon revealing how many Alexa devices have been sold (100 million) by Dec 31 2018, it shows how the competition race between Amazon and Google is heating up around voice-enabled assistant devices. Indeed consumers are showing appetite for these news elegant and stylish “smart” devices but are they conscious of the […]
ErnieApp widens RTM (Right to Monetize) advocacy footprint in Europe
International Product Safety Week 2018
Facial recognition: It’s time for action
It’s time big tech companies start being vocal on trends they don’t support. We praise Microsoft for having started joining a camp made still of too few companies. We share in particular their views around these two principles: “Ensuring notice” whereby “The law should require that entities that use facial recognition to identify consumers place […]
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Tech giants in the digital age
Tommaso Valletti, European Commission, DG Competition Chief Economist speaking about tech giants and dominance at CRA Conference on Dec 5, 2018. In his presentation, the Chief Economist emphasized how privacy policy can entrench dominance and also what possible remedies can be devised. We encourage you to look at his slide n.12 (available at https://ecp.crai.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tommaso-Valletti-2018.pdf) where he points […]
ErnieApp Speakership @ “Pay to Pry” Panel DPC 2018
We are very proud to have been invited by MeP Sophie in’t Veld to speak on Privacy Panel @IAPP 2018 in Brussels last November 28, 2018. We praised the discussion and the interaction with the distinguished audience. Clearly the notion of upstream data valuation (which we preconize under RTM approach) is challenged by years of […]
PageFair and Blockthrough joined forces
We are seeing industry consolidation also in the niche market of ad-block mitigation solution. This can mean only one thing. Ad-block is and remains a big problem which is continuing affecting the industry as a whole but digital publishers and advertisers in particular. “Blockthrough has acquired PageFair. Together, the combined company is the clear leader […]
ErnieApp CEO Invited to speak @ IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018
PRESS RELEASE | ErnieApp | Dublin [19 Nov 2018]. ErnieApp CEO Isabella De Michelis invited to speak at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels on 28 November 2018. She will participate to the “Pay to Pry – Will a Price Tag Disincentivise Excessive Data Use?” session moderated by Sophie in ‘t Veld, MEP, Chair, European Parliament’s […]
ErnieApp CEO invited to speak @ International Product Safety Week
PRESS RELEASE | ErnieApp | Dublin [14 Nov 2018]. ErnieApp CEO Isabella de Michelis invited to speak at International Product Safety Week 12-14 Nov 2018, in Brussels, “It’s smart: but is it safe?”, a 2 days joint conference promoted by the European Commission and the OECD to discuss forms and desirability of new safety regulation […]