The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants businesses and influencers who post online ads for children to adhere to new formatting as outlined in its Protecting Kids from Stealth Advertising in Digital Media report, to clearly delineate advertising from content. In addition to providing icons to use, the FTC also recommends providing just-in-time disclosures to distinguish the ads.
The UK’s broad, newly passed Online Safety Bill places the onus on business to proactively screen for and regulate a range of online activity to proactively decide whether it is legal. This goes beyond what other Western countries have done and encompasses responsibility for reducing hate speech, online fraud and child safety.
Ontario’s government-funded birth registry and the US educational non-profit, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) are believed to be among thousands of organizations impacted by a mass-hack that targeted MOVEit, a file transfer tool organizations use to share large data sets over the internet. The National Student Clearinghouse breach impacted close to 900 schools and Ontario confirmed their data breach affected 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.