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Summit Snapshot: Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Calls for Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation and Asks for Industry Support

September 18, 2023

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: In a recent address at Digital Advertising Alliance Summit 23: [AD]vance, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the representative of Illinois' Ninth Congressional District, emphasized the urgent need for a comprehensive federal privacy law. We concur.

We were excited to have a perspective from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at our Summit in Chicago. The Congresswoman’s address was introduced by Stu Ingis, chairman, Venable LLP, and general counsel to DAA.

In Defense of Tailored Advertising: Key Trade Groups Rally Around Responsible Data Collection to Serve Relevant Ads and Engage Consumers

March 16, 2022

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: Societal value is generated through interest-based advertising while extending meaningful consumer privacy, business groups told Members of Congress citing DAA earlier this month. DAA Board members push for balanced federal privacy legislation.

Since 2009, Digital Advertising Alliance Principles have existed to extend meaningful privacy safeguards and controls to consumers while enabling a more relevant advertising experience, and facilitating a thriving, competitive digital economy that serves thousands of businesses and millions of consumers. On March 1, 2022, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, led by Rep.

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.

Summit Snapshot 19:DC | U.S. Dept. of Commerce Assistant Secretary for Industry & Analysis Sullivan Seeks to Keep Open Global Data Flows with Trading Partners in Privacy-First Age

August 15, 2019

By Lou Mastria

Big Idea: If there’s any concern about the Trump Administration’s commitment to recognizing and facilitating opportunities for digital innovation among private players in our global economy, then such concern can be dismissed.

During a keynote address at the Digital Advertising Alliance Summit 19:DC in Washington, Acting Assistant Secretary James Sullivan, Jr., gave spirited support for such innovation – and detailed the wide-ranging efforts by the International Trade Administration at the U.S.

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