Florida has passed SB 662, the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) to protect student data by barring websites and apps used by schools from selling data for targeted ads. It joins California and more than 40 other US states that have student privacy laws.
TransUnion’s 2023 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report shows fraud attempts up globally, and increasingly sophisticated, between 2019-2022. Consistent with other surveys on consumer concerns about how businesses handle their privacy, TransUnion’s findings were that 63% of digital consumers wouldn’t return to a website if they had fraud concerns and that 48% abandoned their online shopping carts for the same reason.
In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued updated guidance for edtech providers on what falls within the scope of the Children’s Code.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.