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Privacy Obligations Must Match Advertising Reach

Following recent California enforcement actions, notably settlements with Disney and Sling TV, U.S. regulators are establishing a precedent that businesses must ensure opt-outs apply to any profile or cross-device recognition they use for advertising. The article argues that if a company can connect devices to target ads, it must also propagate and enforce opt-outs across those same profiles and partner systems. This is framed as an engineering and infrastructure challenge — not merely a legal checkbox — because many consent management tools record choices only at the browser or account level and do not automatically unify or notify downstream ad-tech partners. The author, Max Anderson (co-founder at Ketch), warns that responsibility cannot be outsourced even if identity matching is bought from third parties.

Ketch Launches Iris Cohort-Based Cookie Scanner

Ketch, an AI privacy company, launched Iris, a patent-pending, cohort-based scanning algorithm designed to replace legacy cookie-scanning approaches. Iris uses AI-driven cohorting and signature-based grouping to cluster pages by observed tracker behavior rather than URL structure, enabling automatic discovery and re-cohorting as new page types or tests appear. The algorithm offers intelligent representative sampling, confirm-and-discover cycles that compound coverage over time, and hop-distance classification to distinguish first-party tags from downstream vendor trackers. Ketch positions Iris as a more stable, defensible approach to scanning that reduces reliance on random sampling and costly exhaustive scans, aimed at privacy and engineering teams managing web trackers and disclosures.

Ketch earns Privacy & Consent Leader recognition in Snowflake's fifth annual Modern Marketing Data Stack report

Ketch earns recognition at Cannes Lions 2026 as Snowflake's fifth edition spotlights the agentic marketing era, and the permissioned data required to succeed.