Welcome to this week’s BAT Community Update! Thank you to Dan Murphy for his contributions!

Blog: Why marketers must conduct GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessments of RTB

Read Johnny Ryan’s note examining the GDPR requirement that marketers conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) when buying digital media using “real-time bidding” advertising.

Event today: Brendan Eich (Brave CEO) to participate in fireside chat, “A Brave New Advertising World,” at World Blockchain Forum in NYC alongside Lin Dai (CEO of TAP Network). Moderated by John Biggs of CoinDesk.

Check out the Eventbrite event page here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wbf-technology-conference-new-york-2019-world-blockchain-awards-global-tickets-58053316031

Community: Chris & Jennie from the BAT team hosted a successful BAT/Brave meetup in Montreal, CA earlier this week!

Thank you to everyone that came out! We looooved meeting other BAT/Brave fans who are as passionate about the project as we are!

Big thanks to everyone who came out for yesterday’s meetup in Montreal, CA! 🇨🇦 We loved getting to connect with you all in person & chat about our shared passion for @AttentionToken and @brave! 🦁 $BAT #Brave #BeBrave pic.twitter.com/f1CrClT0vF — BAT Community (@BAT_Community) September 24, 2019

September 5-Friend Giveaway: Get 5 of your friends to join the forum on BATCommunity.org & score a BAT/Brave swag kit each!

Who wants some new BAT/Brave swag to rock this fall season? We know we do!



You and 5 of your friends can each win a swag kit consisting of one of each item in the BAT/Brave web store by signing up to join the BAT Community forum! The forum is THE go-to place to discuss all things BAT!



The giveaway officially opens today (Sep. 13) and will end on Monday, September 30th.

More details here: https://forum.batcommunity.org/t/september-5-friend-giveaway-get-5-of-your-friends-to-join-the-forum-on-batcommunity-org-score-a-bat-brave-swag-kit-each/1040

Client Updates

Dev Channel v0.71.81

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.71.81

Beta Channel v0.70.102

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.70.102

Release Channel v0.68.141

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.68.141

Release Notes:

Fixed crash which occurred in certain cases when browsing. (#6130)

Brave Team Tweets

Because we cannot do the detailed attention measurement, deep UX (e.g., URL bar), or ad/tracker blocking and blind signature Rust native code, more to come, from addons. I've said this often too. If we could, and would not get blocked by extension stores for any reason, we would. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) September 19, 2019 Why not make Brave a browser extension?

Working on it rn – but we do not disclose individual publisher data. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) September 23, 2019 Are there stats on BAT payments to publishers and creators using Brave Rewards?

Taking a break to share something fun we recently ran with @Brave Ads.



In August, we leveraged our ad unit as a social driver for part of the Intel Gamer Days campaign.



Brands can offer people a chance to win, or other reward, for tweeting to their network. pic.twitter.com/A3zipRBrn1 — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) September 26, 2019 Luke’s recap of Brave’s Intel Gamer Days campaign. Check the thread here:

If you are using RTB, take note.

(For marketers and ad agencies). https://t.co/JKeEq9i4c3 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) September 24, 2019 Real-time bidding users, pay attention to Johnny.

An omnivorous & fitting acronym for the @brave + @AttentionToken flow:



Browse

Earn

Accumulate

Reward



Need to work in a tiger ref, then we'll have the recipe for an "oh my." — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) September 23, 2019 Use Brave so to BEAR the internet?

GIPHY finds a Moat https://t.co/N9blyVj3YI — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) September 26, 2019 GIPHY gets ad tracking…

The text of the new California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPREA) is now available https://t.co/NieKYs8EjS — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) September 25, 2019 Johnny dives into the test of CPREA. Check it out.

BAT/Brave in the News

As Privacy Concerns Make the Internet More Opaque, Can Ad Tech Keep Its Promise?

As Europe’s strict stance on internet privacy continues to gain traction across the globe, advertisers are struggling to balance their need for audience targeting data with increasing demands for privacy.



Read the full text here: https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/online-privacy-concerns-ad-tech-new-targeting/

Brave featured on KTLA 5 morning news (Brave talk starts at ~1:07)

Brave is an entire web browser dedicated to privacy, which means to use it you’ll have to ditch Firefox, Chrome, Edge or Explorer to take advantage of its built in protections.



By default, Brave blocks trackers, ads and forces secure, encrypted connections on all websites that support them.



The result? A more private browsing experience, less ads on pages and faster load times. Brave says pages load up to 2 times faster on desktop and 8 times faster on mobile.



You can also click to see how Brave is working to protect your privacy with a little report card for each site you visit.

News You Should Know

Google Blocks Privacy Push at the Group That Sets Web Standards

Google blocked a privacy push at the main organization that decides how the world wide web works, according to a recent vote that isolated the internet giant from others involved in the process.



The Alphabet Inc. unit was the only member of the World Wide Web Consortium to vote against the measure to expand the power of the organization’s internet privacy group, according to a tally of the results viewed by Bloomberg News. Twenty four organizations voted for the idea in a recent poll.

Read the full text here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-24/google-blocks-privacy-push-at-the-group-that-sets-web-standards

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law. Good.

In a little over three months, California will see the widest-sweeping state-wide changes to its privacy law in years. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks in on January 1 and rolls out sweeping new privacy benefits to the state’s 40 million residents — and every tech company in Silicon Valley.



California’s law is similar to Europe’s GDPR. It grants state consumers a right to know what information companies have on them, a right to have that information deleted and the right to opt-out of the sale of that information.

Roaring Fans

I am so happy with my current online tools and system of work: @StandardNotes for notes; @Bitwarden for passwords; @TutanotaTeam for email; @brave / @firefox for browsing; @Sync for cloud storage. Things are so interconnected and making me very efficient. #HappyCamper — Leo Boulton (@leoboulton) September 26, 2019

Ive been using brave for over a year I think or close to.

Never given me a reason to leave. — Keith Richards (@Robin_Keith) September 26, 2019

@brave dropped a big update today on mobile, and one of the features is dark mode on mobile 😭✌🏼 yes! — Hashoshi from Crypto YouTube (@hashoshi4) September 25, 2019

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