China has drawn a red line with its new Data Sovereignty Law reducing foreign access to its data – especially with regards to the US. Declaring data an essential national resource that should be closely held and monitored, China is rejecting cross-border data sharing and open-access frameworks.
Unions including the American Federation of Teachers and the National Federation of Federal Employees, and a military veterans’ group attempted to stop the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Social Security numbers and other sensitive data but lost on appeal.
Regardless of how old you are, YouTube will vet you based on what AI concludes from your viewing behavior. And, if it decides your behavior has been, well, juvenile, you may have to provide ID evidence that you are an adult. Other criteria such as longevity of your account will also be taken into consideration, but this is part of broader trends of automating age verification, banning young people from social media, and prompting privacy concerns over using data models to analyze user viewing behaviors.
CDP Zeta Global has unveiled Athena, a “superintelligent” voice-activated interface that delivers instant answers, smarter decisions, and agentic actions throughout the Zeta platform. It activates a suite of agentic apps that can adapt to each user’s specific goals and styles. Early access will begin later this year, with a suite of agentic apps to follow in the first half of next year.