Cambodia may be the next Southeast Asian country to have a privacy law. However, a draft copy obtained by news venue, Nikkei Asia is raising fears the legislation may actually put personal data at increased risk and empower the government and companies to share data without consent.
Dropbox thoughtfully added an enabled-by-default setting that shares Dropbox data with OpenAI, but its reception fell flat on social media. Seems people weren’t very reassured by the company’s explanation the data wouldn’t be used to train AI and would be deleted in one-months’ time.
Companies trying to steer a true course amid shifting privacy regulations may welcome the new toolset from Common Sense Privacy, an AI Fund-backed for-profit spinoff of the privacy rating organization Common Sense Media. The tools include capabilities to draft privacy policies and to advise on filling out privacy nutrition labels required by app stores. There’s also a dashboard to help companies see how what they’re doing stacks up against various regulations.
Retail and hospitality customer engagement platform Givex has added the ability to create comprehensive customer profiles that include interaction data from other systems. The new product, GivexEngageAI, also develops customer segments, executes marketing campaigns, and recommends next best actions. The company refers to it as a CDP and it does appear to tick all of our boxes.