Our homes are our supposedly most private spaces, with the bedroom being especially personal. Although smart bedroom devices, ranging from smart pillows to window shades and blinds, offer convenience, A study from Surkshark shows they may lead to concerns about compromising user privacy. Key insights include: Analysed smart bedroom device apps collect an average of […]

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Netflix €4.75 million (£3.9m) for not properly informing customers about its use of their personal data between 2018 and 2020. An investigation, started in 2019, showed that “Netflix did not inform customers clearly enough in its privacy statement about what exactly Netflix does with those data,” the […]

VeraViews, an open-ledger advertising ecosystem that prevents ad fraud, has been accepted as a member of the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN). In its membership application, VeraViews explained how ad fraud hurts both advertisers and publishers, and detailed its open ledger-based ad tech solution and patented ‘Proof of View’ (PoV) PoV technology, tailored to programmatic video […]

Surfshark has published a study titled Smart Home Privacy Checker which looks at smart home devices and the significant privacy issues they raise. Tech giants Amazon and Google developed the most data-hungry smart home device apps. Amazon’s Alexa gathers 28 out of 32 possible data points, which is more than three times the average collected […]

Parks Associates, a specialist in consumer and market research, has released its latest study, Privacy and Data Protection for Connected Devices, revealing that 54 per cent of US internet households report experiencing a data privacy/security issue over a 12-month period. This is an increase of 50 per cent since 2018. Drawing from a survey of […]

Pixalate, the fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform for Connected TV (CTV) and Mobile Advertising, has released the Q3 2022 Missing Privacy Policy Report: Mobile Apps for apps available for download across the Apple App Store and Google Play Stores. Pixalate examined 5.2 million+ downloadable apps across the Apple and Google mobile app stores and […]

Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s new study, Privacy + Piracy, highlight US consumers’ concerns about these two issues. Privacy: Consumers Are Not as Excited as the Industry about Addressable Advertising on Smart TVs, But are Leaving Their Data Vaults “Ajar”  This reticence may hamper the wider rollout of addressable advertising on Smart TVs. But there […]