Data collected illicitly from K-12 schools is showing up on the dark web, exposing the data of millions of school children whose parents are largely unaware it’s happening, according to NBC News. The result of increasing numbers of ransomware attacks, the school data has included Social Security numbers, medical data, and family financial data.
In a change from automatic opt-in, Apple will begin prompting App store users asking if they want to receive targeted ads. The move comes as Apple is facing a growing number of anti-trust cases and as the company continues to add privacy-focused ad features.
Mark Zuckerberg had touted a plan to provide researchers data on how people interacted with posts and links on the platform to allow analysis of misinformation on the site. Turns out, Facebook only provided data selectively on half the users that were intended, so researchers had an inaccurate view.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.