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Dates : May 2022

UK Authority Opens Anti-Trust Investigation into Google Ad Tech

May 31, 2022
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Marketing Authority (CMA) has noticed that Google owns the largest demand side platform, ad exchange, and ad server, and wonders whether Google exploits that for competitive advantage.  So far, they’ve discovered the related technology is “known as the ‘ad tech stack’” and “is important because millions of people across the UK use websites that rely on advertising revenue to offer high-quality, free content.”  Impressive.
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TikTok Overtakes YouTube in U.S. Time Spent

May 31, 2022
You know TikTok is hot, but did you know it’s expected to attract more time than YouTube among adult U.S. consumers this year?   If you’re a marketer itching for a piece of that action, you may also want to know you can now publish TikTok content using Hootsuite, Sprinkler, Emplify, Sprout Social, Khoros, Brandwatch, and other systems.   Also, they’ve added a WooCommerce integration that can synch entire store catalogs to TikTok, and use the TikTok Pixel to track ad results.
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Google CEO urged to protect women in advance of Roe decision

May 31, 2022
Seems the wrong way around, yet in another strange-but-true episode of, “You Bet Your Privacy,” 40+ Democratic lawmakers appealed to a scion of Big Tech to take up the defense of women nationwide, should Roe be overturned. Fearing women can become geo-located targets of right-wing prosecutors, the ask is for CEO Sundar Pichai to preemptively shed, then not collect location data to keep hunters off the scent. How Did We Get Here?
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IT’S THE LAW (05/31/2022)

May 31, 2022
British Columbia introduces Anti-Racism Data Act, the first in North America to collect data as a “tool of care” for human rights. It gives the Canadian province limited rights to collect select demographic data to be used to identify and look to eliminate systematic racism. It includes provision for the creation of an anti-racism data committee to be appointed this summer which will work with Indigenous groups, people of color, and racialized communities. Individuals will have the choice of whether they want to have their demographic data used and won’t be denied services if they decline.
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Two-year study of ICE procurement activity finds US agency has easy access to billions of data points – with little oversight

May 31, 2022
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), isn’t considered a surveillance arm of the government, but it does have access to a vast trove of data via the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and utility companies that provide heat, water and electricity. A new study has found that data it collects from those organizations and a couple others, adds up to it having data on 1 in 3 adults via license photos, 3 in 4 adults via license data, and 3 in 4 adults via utility records. Concern is that ICE... Read More >
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Children’s Privacy: 49 countries; 290 companies; 164 learning products… harvest kids’ data without consent – re: Human Rights Watch global report

May 31, 2022
Kudos to Morocco, the one government found not to endorse an EdTech product that risks or undermines children’s rights. Other of the world’s most populous countries – not so much! In fact, alarming findings from the Human Rights Watch report, “How Dare They Peep into My Private Life?,” indicate it’s been open season on surveilling children worldwide, thanks to edtech use of tracking technologies capable of monitoring children in- and outside virtual classrooms across the Internet over time. Think that’s not so bad? Remember that can provide access to the rest... Read More >
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