A complaint filed by the US Department of Justice on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged Microsoft with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) due to its collection of personal data of underage Xbox users and then retaining the children’s data without parental consent.
Louisiana has just passed a bill requiring people under 18 (minors), to get parents’ permission to sign up for online services – including social networks, multiplayer games and video-sharing apps. This is broader in scope than similar new laws in Utah and California. Not sure if you have kids – but, it’s hard to picture our (now grown) kids understanding why this would be necessary when they were at ages old enough to drive, work and prepare for college.
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Adobe has announced a new solution within its GenStudio suite, GenStudio for Performance Marketing. This self-service application is aimed at accelerating the creation of display and social ads, emails and banners using approved, on-brand content. The solution will leverage Adobe Firefly as well as third-party LLMs.