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Johnny Ryan’s privacy keynote for P&G

Jun 15, 2020

Procter & Gamble invited Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave to give a (remote) keynote about how advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future.

Industry discussion on the GDPR at 2 years old, and future EU regulatory development

May 20, 2020

Senior representatives of advertisers, publishers, and intermediaries discuss two years of the the GDPR in a discussion hosted by Brave.

Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

Mar 16, 2020

Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.

Failure to enforce the GDPR enables Google’s monopoly

Feb 18, 2020

Brave’s submission to the UK Competition & Markets Authority shows how to fix the RTB market and end Google’s advertising monopoly.

Competition issues in digital markets

Oct 7, 2019

This note presents a submission from Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave, and Dr Orla Lynskey of the London School of Economics, to the UK Competition & Markets Authority.

Brave answers US Senators questions on privacy and antitrust

Jun 17, 2019

Brave answers Senators Whitehouse, Booker, Graham and Leahy’s questions for the record from the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on privacy and anti-trust.

Dr Johnny Ryan’s testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee

May 21, 2019

Dr Johnny Ryan’s testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy”.

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets

Jan 22, 2019

Big tech companies “cross-use” user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.