The Pakistan’s Personal Data Protection Bill draft is scheduled to be completed this month and plans are for strict measures and fines that range from $125,000 for individuals who violate the law to $2 million for businesses that disclose or disseminate personal information without authorization.
“Blatant GDPR breach,” claims Open Rights Group after discovering a new X setting slipped in recently that grants the company access by default. To fix: go to your profile, then Settings > Privacy and Safety > Data Sharing and Personalization. Select Grok, and then switch the slider to ‘Off.’
After years of speculation, discussion and prognosticating about life after 3rd party cookies in Chrome, it turns out Google was just kidding – and now we need to spread a new set of tea leaves to attempt to read as Google scraps that idea and may: 1) give users an opt-in for tracking, 2) wonder how to get users to want that, and 3) decide advertisers need the Sandbox afterall, once users astutely realize they strongly prefer not to be tracked. Here’s a look at early thoughts.
It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.