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Children’s Privacy: Do Not Track Kids – a new app looks to block Big Tech in a big way

Kid data is the low hanging fruit for the digital ad industry and for Big Tech that want to vacuum up mass amounts of data. That’s because it’s largely available and often untended. In fact, estimates are that on average by the time a person is 13 years old, companies can have collected more than 72 million data points about them. Like many of us, security firm Disconnect has a problem with that, and their brand new Do Not Track Kids app is designed to stop it easily, efficiently and automatically by default with just one install. In fact, according to the company, its most aggressive custom settings can fully block even the biggest of big offenders, Google, Meta, and TikTok. Go Team!

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Global survey shows transparency is paramount to 65% consumers – companies found falling short

October 18, 2022

Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey of 2600 adults in 12 countries, found 84% of consumers equate how a company handles their data with how much they are valued by that company – a number that increased ten percentage points since 2019. Close to half of all surveyed, 43%, don’t feel able to protect their data due to lack of corporate transparency.

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Getty Offers Gen AI Tool Built Only with Licensed Images

September 28, 2023

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.

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