Consumer Control and Choice

Digital Advertising Alliance Launches Opt-Out Functionality for Hashed Phone Number Identifiers

Ad-Related Companies Can 'Future-Proof' Their Identity Plans by Integrating DAA’s Token-ID-Based Tool for Email and Now Phone-Based Choices

WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 2, 2023 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) today launched new beta functionality allowing individuals to opt out of interest-based advertising (IBA) via the submission of “hashed” -- or encrypted -- phone numbers.

Upcoming DAA Integrations to Foster Consumer Engagement and Build Trust, Spanning Consumer Choice, Political Ads, and all Addressable Media

May 3, 2023

By Lou Mastria

Big idea: As the second quarter of 2023 progresses, DAA self-regulatory initiatives are forging ahead to keep your company on the right side of the consumer. Make sure to keep pace and participate accordingly.

The DAA’s community’s strength has come from its foresight and its proactive actions to codify and live by responsible industry practices.

2022 – A Year to Reinvest in Responsible Customer Engagement with Relevant Advertising Content

January 26, 2022

By Lou Mastria

Big idea: Relevance requires continual reinvestment. DAA is amid just that to keep pace with consumer identifiers, responsible data collection, and new avenues for transparency and control, thanks to your participation. Let's keep it going, all together.

Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Principles were established more than a decade ago to keep pace with a rapidly changing marketplace -- extending effective meaningful privacy protections to US consumers. In many ways, 2021 marked a watershed year – all of it setting the stage for a 2022 that will keep DAA innovating to protect and advance consumer engagement with responsible brands and publishers of content.

New DAA-Commissioned Survey Shows ‘AdChoices’ Icon Recognition Has Grown to 82 Percent in 2021

June 3, 2021

By Lou Mastria

Consumers use and see the icon as a portal to privacy information – and assign trust to brands, publishers and advertisers who use it in ads, in apps and on sites.

To evaluate ongoing consumer awareness and perception around the “AdChoices” icon, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) conducted a survey of 1,000 US adults in February 2021. Among top-line findings are that 82 percent of respondents have some familiarity with the YourAdChoices Icon and 81 percent understand the icon broadly offers them choice and control as it pertains to advertising.

DAA Announces Updated Transparency & Consumer Control with Token-based Opt-out/Revocation Tool

May 12, 2021

By Lou Mastria

AppChoices is being updated to remain consistent with industry best practices and consumer expectations/preferences.

As the digital advertising industry continues to evolve, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) is working to ensure that its time-tested Transparency and Control Principles,

Summit Snapshot: Identity Management Challenges Underscore Need for Cross-Industry Coordination and Leadership

October 1, 2020

By Lou Mastria

Big idea: As the marketplace ponders what comes now and after cookies, the results will have to balance the value consumers place on privacy, convenience and access to diverse content.

With the industry’s heightened attention on identity management amid policy making and technology developments, it’s no wonder the ad tech community – joined by agencies, publishers and advertisers –

Summit Snapshot: Rep. Diaz Barragán (D-CA) Addresses Responsible Data Use and a Potential National Privacy Law

July 6, 2020

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: The transparency and safeguards that consumers demand and expect in a national data privacy law are foundational to the DAA Principles and the Privacy for America framework were echoed in a speech by Rep. Diaz Barragán at DAA Virtual Summit 20.

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) may have taken our annual Summit program “virtual” – having to relocate online from our original intended venue in Southern California, because of COVID-19 -- but that didn’t stop an influential member of California’s Congressional delegation from addressing our Summit audience on consumer data concerns and the need for a new federal privacy law.

Final Proposed Regulations to Implement the CCPA Fail Consumers and Businesses, Advertising Trade Associations Say

Ambiguous Rules, Unconstitutional Requirements, and Lack of Time to Comply Will Hurt Californians

June 8, 2020 - Final proposed regulations submitted by the Office of the California Attorney General (CA AG) to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) fail to provide businesses with needed clarity and time to comply and contain unconstitutional requirements that exceed the CA AG’s authority and could frustrate consumers, according to several leading advertising trade associations.

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