CDP Institute

More than 280 million email accounts have been breached since 2020, according to a report from Surfshark, which analyzed them by country, and this is thought to have caused many consumers to change their email addresses. The US was affected most by breaches, followed by India, Russia and Indonesia.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) may soon get changed if the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has its way. It’s been a decade since COPPA was last changed, and now the FTC is soliciting public comments about their proposed changes which include stricter parental consent, guardrails around ed tech engagement, and limiting data retention.

Stolen data included customer names, encrypted passwords and parts of social security numbers.

This comes as the majority of physical attendants of parked cars, meters and parking attendants, are being replaced by automated ones.

Charmingly, their marketing team listens in on ambient conversations picked up by smartphones, smart TVs and other devices, then targets people with ads.