Enforcement

WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 23, 2011 – The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a self-regulatory body that develops industry best practices and effective solutions for consumer choice in online behavioral advertising (OBA), today announced the next phase in the enforcement of the Self- Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising.

NEW YORK, NY - February 22, 2012 - The FTC called on the business community to set responsible standards for the collection and use of web viewing data on the Internet and to provide transparency and control to consumers.

United States Administration initiatives have similarly encouraged the business community to develop codes of conduct that further innovative offerings to consumers while providing choices to consumers regarding data about such web viewing data.

WASHINGTON – June 20, 2013 – Mozilla’s decision to summarily block the vast majority of third-party cookies for all of its users threatens to destabilize an advertising ecosystem that supports free content and services relied upon by hundreds of millions of Internet users worldwide, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) warned today.

Beyond jeopardizing the amount and quality of content available to users, the plan also threatens to immediately diminish the user experience, by breaking services and tools upon which online businesses and users depend.

WASHINGTON – November 5, 2013 – The more Internet users learn about the protections and choices available to them, the more comfortable they become with online interest-based advertising, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby Analytics on behalf of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

More than half of all Americans polled (51.3 percent) said they’d be more likely to click on an online ad that included an icon – like the Advertising Option icon – that allowed them to opt out of ad-related information collection.