Privacy Manifests clarified: tracking domains blocked Apple released the documentation for its Privacy Manifests feature last week. Privacy Manifests were announced at WWDC 2023 and serve… March 19, 2024
Podcast: The privacy benefits of on-device processing (with Dieter Rappold and Felix Krause) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0llSe8oeoJB8pVs4Ptm3od?si=3484120647614478 My guests on this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast are Dieter Rappold and Felix Krause, the founders… February 14, 2024
Cookie deprecation in Chrome: who is impacted? Google began restricting third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users on January 4th and intends to deprecate cookies for all… January 17, 2024
Podcast: Exploring the Pay-or-Okay model (with Mikołaj Barczentewicz) My guest on this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast is Mikołaj Barczentewicz, a law professor at, and the research… December 20, 2023
Podcast: Understanding Interoperable Private Attribution (with Ben Savage) My guest on this episode of the podcast is Ben Savage, who works at the intersection of advertising and privacy at… December 13, 2023
Why aren’t MMPs included in Apple’s Required Privacy Manifests SDK list? Last week, without much fanfare, Apple released a list of SDKs that must generate Privacy Manifest files to be included… December 11, 2023
What is an “appropriate fee” for a social media subscription? This week, digital privacy activist group noyb filed a complaint against Meta with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA). The… December 1, 2023
First-party data and the new Walled Compounds At a conceptual level, commercially valuable advertising targeting requires two assets, with the utility of each increasing in direct proportion… November 29, 2023
Meta, subscriptions, and the EU’s Privacy Gordian Knot Meta announced today that it will introduce an ad-free subscription in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland regions next month. From… October 30, 2023
Meta’s AEM update and the disappearing IP address Meta announced in May that it would be implementing changes to its Aggregated Event Measurement (AEM) framework, which the company… October 25, 2023
