Data Privacy Roundup

Not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Google is keeping third-party cookies in Chrome, and here’s what ad tech Twitter (X, whatever), has to say about it.

Sophia Cao, RTB House’s newly appointed director of private advertising advocacy, knows how to play nice in the sandbox – because, well, she used to work there.

Musings on the Chrome Privacy Sandbox consent pop-up after experiencing one in the wild in Europe. Do people know what they’re opting into?

Class-action attorney Jay Barnes makes the case for why the US **doesn’t** need to pass a dedicated federal data privacy law.

Being able to share information about a group of people without compromising any individual person’s privacy kinda sounds like a form of wizardry. But it’s not. It’s just math.

Rather than directly managing risk and regulatory compliance as a traditional chief privacy would do, Ron De Jesus is like a liaison between Transcend and the CPO community.

Google has said publicly that it will eventually (“soon”) adopt a national approach to privacy compliance in the US. That’s a big deal – but only if Google actually does it.

The APRA is the first serious attempt at a compromise to pass national privacy legislation since the American Data Privacy and Protection Act failed to advance last year.

I spent the week in Washington, DC, attending two privacy- and public policy-focused events and I have a single takeaway from both: Enforcement. Is. Coming.