California’s AG suggests Do Not Track’s global successor would allow people to opt out of their data being sold under the state’s privacy law.
February 08, 2021

From retail brands to small publishers, a flurry of companies have been calling privacy lawyer Dominique Shelton Leipzig about a recent tweet from the California Attorney General. The tweet discussed a new global privacy opt-out tool called Global Privacy Control, the successor to Do Not Track. And it has some in the the media and ad industry scrambling to understand its implications for complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Read more below.

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