Does Apple police fingerprinting? In Meta's Renaissance, I credit Meta's years-long recovery from Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy to four strategic changes… December 3, 2025
Podcast: Can the GDPR be reformed? (with Mikołaj Barczentewicz) https://open.spotify.com/episode/45iTETKIuj7wtGQXks49ge?si=4a26ee50969c49a8 My guest on this episode of the podcast is Mikołaj Barczentewicz, a professor of law at the University of… November 25, 2025
The privacy shuffle, part 4: Google shutters Privacy Sandbox On Friday, Google announced that it has effectively discontinued its Privacy Sandbox initiative for both Chrome and Android (emphasis mine):… October 20, 2025
Tea app and the App Store privacy illusion Last week, users on the 4Chan forum discovered that user data for Tea Dating Advice, an app that reached a… July 30, 2025
Estimating the impact of Meta’s reintroduction of AMM Last week, I wrote about the reinstatement of Meta's Advanced Mobile Measurement (AMM) program, which Meta discontinued in October 2021.… July 2, 2025
The privacy shuffle, part 3: Meta resurrects AMM Meta updated the terms for its Advanced Mobile Measurement (AMM) framework on June 17th, effectively resurrecting the program after it… June 19, 2025
What does advanced fingerprinting protection mean for advertisers? Yesterday, at WWDC, Apple announced that "advanced fingerprinting protection" will now be applied to all browsing modes in Safari by… June 10, 2025
The privacy shuffle, part 2 The Information reports that Google laid off 10% of its Privacy Sandbox team in April after having offered buyouts to… May 14, 2025
Google was the open web’s imperfect benefactor Google was determined to have maintained an illegal monopoly in its so-called "ad tech" case last week. The court found… April 23, 2025
Podcast: Quantifying the impact of ATT (with Daniel McCarthy) My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Daniel McCarthy, who is an Associate Professor of Marketing at… April 16, 2025
