With less than three months to enforcement mid-December, the Australian government has published findings of a study that determined companies there should be able (with reasonable certainty) to accurately verify age to ensure under-16s can’t access social media. There are of course risks of false positives or false negatives and questions about how companies will comply, given they won’t be told what verification products to use.
The economy may be sputtering (or not), but funds are flowing more freely for martech and adtech acquisitions. Video platform Vimeo has just agreed to be acquired for $1.38 billion in cash. The buyer is Bending Spoons, a Milan-based mobile app developer.