Australia’s attorney general is looking to modernize the country’s Privacy Act and broaden citizen rights. Proposed changes include the right to opt-out of targeted ads, the right to erase their data, and the right to sue for serious breach of privacy.
Oracle and Uber Technologies announced a seven-year strategic cloud partnership to accelerate Uber’s innovation, help deliver new products to market, and drive increased profitability. By migrating some of the company’s most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Uber will be in a position to modernize its infrastructure while also accelerating its path to profitability.
The food delivery service cited “challenging economic conditions” and the inability to make the subsidiary operation profitable. This despite Australia bringing in 3% of revenue, and it follows its summer move to leave the Dutch market.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.