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IAB Tech Lab Announces the Formation of Two New Working Groups: The Privacy Sandbox Task Force and The Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee
Friday, October 6, 2023
New Working Groups Advance Artificial Intelligence in Digital Media and Navigate Privacy Sandbox Changes in the Chrome Browser
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IAB Tech Lab, the global digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced the establishment of two new working groups that will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital media and advertising: the Privacy Sandbox Task Force and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Subcommittee.
As digital advertising faces a significant turning point with the evolving Privacy Sandbox within Google's Chrome browser, IAB Tech Lab created the Privacy Sandbox Task Force. This specialized task force is dedicated to conducting a rigorous technical and operational analysis of the forthcoming Privacy Sandbox modifications and their implications for digital advertising use cases.
The Privacy Sandbox Task Force's key objectives include:
-- Technical Examination: Explore the technical intricacies of Google
Chrome's Privacy Sandbox updates, including the protected audience API
and Attribution Reporting API, to understand their implications for
advertisers, publishers, and ad tech providers.
-- Operational Insight: Analyze operational shifts that stakeholders in
digital advertising must adapt to, ensuring the consistent delivery,
optimization, and measurement of digital ads.
-- Gap Analysis: Analyze, understand, and document the critical advertising
use cases supported by the Privacy Sandbox and what gaps need to be
addressed and propose improvements to ensure the needs of brands and
publishers are properly addressed.
-- Recommendations: Provide actionable guidance and update existing or
introduce new technical standards for the digital advertising ecosystem
to address the changes introduced by the Chrome browser. The Task Force
will publish its analysis and recommendations for the industry's benefit
later this year.
"Given their worldwide market share of approximately 65%, understanding the shifts brought about by Chrome's Privacy Sandbox development is crucial," said Anthony Katsur, CEO of IAB Tech Lab.
The Privacy Sandbox Task Force welcomes all IAB Tech Lab members and encourages digital advertising stakeholders globally who have performed testing or analyzed the Privacy Sandbox proposals to participate. Collaborative engagement will be vital in navigating this significant development in the advertising industry.
For more details or to express your interest in joining, please visit: https://iabtechlab.com/working-groups/privacy-sandbox-task-force/
The AI Subcommittee was created due to the transformative impact of AI on the digital media landscape. This subcommittee, composed of a select group of IAB Tech Lab Board members, is dedicated to exploring the rapidly evolving intersection of AI technologies with the world of digital media.
The AI Subcommittee's key objectives include:
-- Roadmap Development: Identifying near, short-and long-term roadmap
deliverables to address AI's impact on the digital media ecosystem, with
an initial focus on media companies.
-- Ethical Framework Creation: Addressing ethical challenges associated
with AI in media by creating new technical standards and frameworks to
ensure content remains trustworthy, transparent, and respects user
privacy.
-- AI Media Trends Analysis: Conducting a comprehensive analysis of
AI-driven trends in digital media, encompassing content recommendation
algorithms, virtual reality, generative AI, and deepfake technology.
Katsur emphasized the importance of this subcommittee, stating, "AI is not just a technological tool; it's a force reshaping our media landscape. Its impact extends across content creation, distribution, consumption, consumer privacy, and monetization. The AI Subcommittee is poised to assume a vital role in comprehending and directing Tech Lab's AI roadmap to manage this evolution."
The AI Subcommittee is open exclusively to IAB Tech Lab Board Members, bringing together data scientists, publisher executives, cryptographers, and technology leaders from publishers, agencies, and big tech platforms to collaborate on shaping an informed, ethical, and exciting future for AI in digital media.
Established in 2014, the IAB Technology Laboratory (Tech Lab) is a non-profit consortium that engages a member community globally to develop foundational technology and standards that enable growth and trust in the digital media ecosystem. Comprised of digital publishers, ad technology firms, agencies, marketers, and other member companies, IAB Tech Lab focuses on solutions for brand safety and ad fraud; identity, data, and consumer privacy; ad experiences and measurement; and programmatic effectiveness. Its work includes the OpenRTB real-time bidding protocol, ads.txt anti-fraud specification, Open Measurement SDK for viewability and verification, VAST video specification, and Project Rearc initiative for privacy-centric addressability. Board members/companies are listed at https://iabtechlab.com/about-the-iab-tech-lab/tech-lab-leadership/. For more information, please visit https://iabtechlab.com.
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SOURCE IAB Tech Lab
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