Children’s Privacy: CARU also issued a compliance warning to businesses to:
1) avoid blurring lines between ads and other content, 2) avoid manipulation, and 3) watch out if you don’t – because CARU plans to strictly enforce its guidelines.
1) avoid blurring lines between ads and other content, 2) avoid manipulation, and 3) watch out if you don’t – because CARU plans to strictly enforce its guidelines.
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) has gotten Firefly Games to agree to address a string of bad decisions the company made about how to handle “mixed audience” data – and the company’s violation should serve as a warning to other businesses with adult and youth consumers. CARU found major inconsistencies in the company’s app, LOL Surprise! Room Makover, which featured children’s characters and also appealed to adults. Issues included problems with the company’s and app’s privacy policy descriptions, inconsistent cookie and geo-location information, and a lack of age verification... Read More >
Had this not been settled for what one would assume to be a very large though currently undisclosed sum, Zuckerberg and other top executives would have had to testify in court late September.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.