The family safety app used globally by 33 million people to track their children’s movements via cellphone, is in fact selling that data to more than a dozen data brokers according to former employees as reported by The Markup.
A DataDome survey conducted by Forrester found 84% of enterprise firms are prioritizing customer experience (CX) and app experience along with bot detection and management (79%). One key finding is that bots are being used to target high-profile events by using card, inventory and account fraud.
The Inrupt platform is intended to give individual consumers the ability to store and control their data via what the company calls Personal Online Datastores (PODs), which will connect with decentralized applications and allow users to decouple their data at will. This fully open and collective web (aka Web3) proposes a way to a new internet era including adaptation to regulatory controls.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.