Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to present the case for GDPR-like data protection standards in the United States.
This note outlines why a GDPR-like standard in the United States is needed to spur innovation and prevent anti-competitive behavour by large tech platforms.
- The letter shows how the GDPR principle of “purpose limitation” can protect innovation by preventing the Google-Facebook “Duopoly” from using their scale in one area of business to crush new entrants in another area of business.
- It argues the importance of enabling frictionless data transfer with the many global markets that are embracing GDPR-like standards.
- It informs senators that the arguments of the tracking/adtech lobby have been discredited. Now, trust must be restored.
- It shows how a GDPR for the United States can relieve public concerns about political micro-targeting.
View the letter here: https://brave.com/us-gdpr-senate/
BLOG: Highlights from David Temkin’s BAT Community AMA David Temkin is the Chief Product Officer at Brave and is responsible for delivering the Brave browser product and for many of the features about it that we know and love! Catch the highlights from his recent AMA (link to the full AMA inside), here:
https://brave.com/ama-with-david-temkin/
Official BAT/Brave event in SF on October 4th with presentation by Brendan Eich The event took place at Founders Fund and was attended by many BAT & Brave team members! Brendan gave a stellar presentation, as always! See pics here:
https://twitter.com/BAT_Community/status/1048237724010868737 See a screenshot from our Instagram livestream (follow us: BAT_Community):
https://www.reddit.com/BATProject/comments/9litji/at_this_time_mr_brendan_eich_meetup_bat_brave/
Brave & BAT at Advertising Week New York NYAdWeek is a higlight event of the year for the advertising industry. With the upcoming ad platform on the horizon, Brave was invited to present and discuss topics from privacy to blockchain disruption with other industry leaders.
Tuesday, Oct 2nd
Brave CEO Brendan Eich joined Jason Kint (CEO, Digital Content Next), Terry Shriver (SVP Brand Manager, Bank of America), Vikram Somaya (SVP, Global Data Officer ESPN), and Kendell Timmers (VP of Advertising Analytics, New York Times) for the GDPR: Where Do We Go Now? seminar.
http://newyork.advertisingweek.com/schedule/-dcn-seminar-2018-10-02-1530
Thursday, Oct 4th
Brave BD Director Luke Mulks joined Adam Helfgott (CEO MadHive), Jared Christopherson (CRO TAPNetwork.io), Richard Bush (President/Co-Chair NYIAX/IAB Blockchain Working Group) for the Ad Tech Disrupted: Accountability and Transparency with Blockchain panel discussion, moderated by Lynne Johnson (Senior Editor, AdMonsters)
http://newyork.advertisingweek.com/schedule/-blockchain-seminar-2018-10-04-1615
October 5-7th: BAT & Brave Team members at ETH San Francisco This weekend, join members of the BAT & Brave teams ETH San Francisco! Jennie and Chris will be running the booth and several other Brave Team members will be there hacking! Come say hi if you’ll be attending the conference!
https://ethsanfrancisco.com/
Hacker Noon is now a BAT / Brave verified publisher Hacker Noon has 7,000+ contributing writers, 200,000+ daily visitors, and 8,000,000+ monthly pageviews
https://www.reddit.com/BATProject/comments/9ktnid/hacker_noon_is_now_a_bat_brave_verified_publishe
Are you ready for Halloween? The BAT Community certainly is! https://twitter.com/BAT_Community/status/1048264790886428672
BAT Community presents its first ever global event: 24 HOURS OF BAT! (10/16) The BAT was first integrated into Brave in October 2017. To celebrate reaching 1 year of BAT utility in Brave, we’ve asked all of our Regional Leaders and volunteers from around the world to host meetups in their country on October 16th, 2018 and create a full day of global BAT meetups!
If you are in the area where one of our meetups will be taking place, you are invited to join in! Meetups with event pages for each region are listed below. Keep an eye out over the coming weeks for more event pages for 24 Hours of BAT meetups in other countries! 24 Hours of BAT meetup in
Media, Pennsylvania:
https://www.meetup.com/BATPennsylvania/events/254956818/ 24 Hours of BAT meetup in
Jakarta, Indonesia:
https://www.meetup.com/BAT-Indonesia-Community/events/255078993/ 24 Hours of BAT meetup in
Vigo, Spain:
https://www.meetup.com/Meetup-de-Educacion-y-tecnologia-en-Vigo/events/255192626/ 24 Hours of BAT meetup in
Toronto, Canada:
https://www.reddit.com/BATProject/comments/9kh6z5/event_details_batbrave_meetup_on_october_16th/ 24 Hours of BAT meetup in
Bogotá, Colombia:
https://www.meetup.com/BATColombia/events/255091430/?_xtd=gqFyqTI1ODQ1NDA2OaFwp2FuZHJvaWQ&from=ref
BAT Community Merch Giveaway Winners! The winners for our BAT Community Daily Merch Giveaways for this week are:
- Monday (Reddit): u/streetride
- Tuesday (Twitter): @doerkadrian
- Wednesday (Facebook): Richard Ehrbar
- Thursday (Contributor special): Tae (Telegram)
- Friday (Instagram): alkalinemouth
Click here to see pics of previous giveaway winners rocking their BAT/Brave merch!: https://imgur.com/a/lhF1G9I Be sure to tune in to our social media channels every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday to participate in our daily merch giveaways for your chance to win!
Client Updates:
Brave releases Brave Beta version 0.55.11
https://brave.com/download-beta Brave releases Brave Dev version 0.56.2
https://brave.com/download-dev/
Brave Team Tweets:
What’s the difference between Brave and Chrome? Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson The difference is we don't track you, or attempt to track you online. We block third party ads & trackers to protect your identity. We also block crypto-mining, malware, phishing, and more by default. And we integrate blockchain support to support your favorite sites anonymously.
3:21 PM - Sep 28, 2018 Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson Brave and Chrome utilize the same core engines (Blink and V8), which are used by many other projects as well. With brave-core, we are now using the same Skia logic for our UI. For now, we share many common UI elements. But that will change as brave-core matures.
3:23 PM - Sep 28, 2018
Is sync coming sooner rather than later? Brian R. Bondy @brianbondy Aiming for official release in Nov. But we'll see it land sooner. Brendan is right about mobile being the done part.
8:42 AM - Sep 29, 2018
Hmmm… Could Brave Android come to Chromebooks? BrendanEich @BrendanEich Never say never... more immediate: a big-display version of Brave Android tuned for Chromebooks.
8:01 PM - Sep 29, 2018
Does Google Benefit from Ad Fraud? (Three parts!) BrendanEich @BrendanEich Google does benefit from fraud. It got ~60% of $80B in 2017 via fees. Assume 20% fraud per
@acfou. Zeroing fraud cuts G rev by >= $9.6B, material. Standards lately dominated by Google. Individually, fine people, many friends. Yet hard to work on this problem in standards process.
1:09 AM - Sep 30, 2018
BrendanEich @BrendanEich Replying to @__anoop and 3 others See
https://www.slideshare.net/augustinefou/state-of-digital-ad-fraud-q2-2018/ …, Dr. Fou's estimate for fraud take in 2017 was $16.2B. Take goes to fake publishers w/ botnet or cloud fake users. Exchanges & other intermediaries turn blind eye cuz they take fee if buy side is fooled. Similarly, malware put in cheap slots pays fees.
Sep 30, 2018
BrendanEich @BrendanEich To recap, money flows from buy side brands thru agencies, DSPs, exchanges, SSPs, any buy or sell side DMPs, finally to publisher if real. But fraud consists of fake pubs fooling antifraud scripts, stealing net due to real pub. Intermediaries get paid if fraudster does. Pubs lose.
1:26 AM - Sep 30, 2018
What’s after Brave? Sharing Attention Token with other apps. BrendanEich @BrendanEich As our roadmap (update delayed but soon) says, we will share
@attentiontoken with other apps after proving the model in Brave. We are realists about not taking over a market, rather uniting lead users to move standards, regulators, the world to a better iteration of the Web.
5:23 PM - Oct 1, 2018
Brave is building a better model, fits GDPR, and with less fraud. BrendanEich @BrendanEich Sure the current model needs tracking; the question before us is whether there is a better model w/ GDPR required user consent (no cookiewall duress) that is less fraud-filled. Brave using the BAT is building one, could be others. No tracking, local data/ML matches ad in catalog.
5:26 PM - Oct 1, 2018
Some publishers see 40% revenue share. Brave wants to give 70%. BrendanEich @BrendanEich From publishers we talk & work with, this 40% programmatic rev-share to publishers is optimistic. As noted it does not include fraud clawbacks. A far cry from 70% (app stores, Brave).
7:13 PM - Oct 1, 2018 Brave Software @brave "I believe that it is not tenable for any platform, publisher, technology vendor, or trade body, to claim that they must track people in order to generate revenue from advertising."
@BrendanEich writes to the US Senate about why GDPR is a model to pursue.
https://brave.com/us-gdpr-senate/ 4:48 PM - Oct 1, 2018
It’s one thing to say “don’t be evil.” “Can’t be evil” is a different level. :) Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson There's so much more (one tweet never does it justice), but that's enough to communicate our goal of "Can't be evil," vs the familiar "Don't be evil." We wish to build solutions in such a way that we couldn't abuse the user's trust, even if we wanted to. Plus we're OS, auditable.
1:58 PM - Oct 2, 2018
BAT/Brave in the News:
Brave CEO Pens Letter to Senate Committee Asking for GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has
written a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and works to secure the data and privacy of all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (
EEA ). In addition, it addresses the exporting of personal data outside these two organizations. GDPR seeks to give individuals control over their personal information and simplify the regulatory atmosphere for international business ventures.
Based in San Francisco, Brave is a new kind of browser that allegedly offers users faster speeds and stronger security by blocking trackers and advertisements. In his letter, Eich describes GDPR as a "great leveler" and says it has allowed many new businesses in Europe to flourish by preventing larger, more established corporations from disadvantaging them.
"The GDPR's principle of 'purpose limitation' will begin to prevent dominant platforms from using data that they have collected for one purpose at one end of their business to the benefit of other parts of their business in a way that currently disadvantages new entrants," Eich writes.
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/brave-ceo-pens-letter-to-senate-committee-asking-for-gdpr-like-privacy-regulation-cm1031714
Basic Attention Token (BAT) Overview: 4 million MAU, co-op with Civic and regular AMAs with community The project recently passed 4 million monthly active users, with over 21 thousand verified publishers on board as well. To celebrate these milestones, Brave
organized a community contest called “Best of the Brave”. Brave Browser recently announced their intention to cooperate with a decentralized digital identification platform called
Civic on matters related to the verification of publishers. Continuing the AMA tradition they’ve recently started, BAT will hold another one on October 4th. This time, the questions can be directed at David Temkin, Chief Product Officer at Brave and the man responsible for delivering the Brave browser product to consumers. The question submitting thread can be found
here. BAT project will
hold a public meet-up in Pennsylvania, USA on October 16th, where the visitors will be given a chance to review the Brave Browser and BAT tokens, how they work and how will they be used in the future.
Read more here:
https://captainaltcoin.com/basic-attention-token-bat-overview-4-million-mau-co-op-with-civic-and-regular-amas-with-community/
Google Privacy Flaws Set Up An Opportunity For Brave and Basic Attention Token Google has again been criticized for breaching user data in collecting private user information. Now according to
Matthew Green, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and team member of ZCash, Google is using new, and potentially unprincipled methods for its data collecting.
According to the professor, Google is breaching trust using Chrome. This breach could be setting up Brave browser for wide adoption. As more users look to keep their information private, comes the need for browsers like Brave. The browser offers a safer and potentially more secure browsing experience.
https://usethebitcoin.com/google-privacy-flaws-set-up-an-opportunity-for-brave-and-basic-attention-token/
News You Should Know:
Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data It’s been just over four months since Europe’s tough new privacy framework came into force. You might believe that little of substance has changed for big tech’s data-hungry smooth operators since then — beyond firing out a wave of privacy policy update spam, and putting up a fresh cluster of consent pop-ups that are just as aggressively keen for your data.
But don’t be fooled. This is the calm before the storm, according to the
European Union’s data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, who says the law is being systematically flouted on a number of fronts right now — and that enforcement is coming.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/europe-is-drawing-fresh-battle-lines-around-the-ethics-of-big-data/
Irish privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook data breach Ireland’s data protection authority is expected to launch a formal investigation into the Facebook data breach
affecting 90 million people worldwide, the first major test of Europe’s new data protection rules, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-data-breach-investigation-ireland-gdpr-privacy-data-protection/
Brave Browser CEO Calls for GDPR Laws in U.S. On September 28, 2018, Brendan Eich, CEO of Brave, and co-founder of Mozilla Firefox
wrote to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to encourage the adoption of a General Data Protection Regulation.
In the letter,
Eich compels the US Senate to consider a European style model which allows for greater protection of the data of private citizens. He calls the GDPR a “great leveler” which will enable companies like his own to compete at a high level in the marketplace.
https://btcmanager.com/brave-browser-ceo-calls-for-gdpr-laws-in-u-s/
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