EU countries are evolving plans to verify ages of internet users and to stop underage users from accessing sites either because of adult content, or when consent is needed. The European Commission plans to institute a digital wallet scheme in 2026 to enable ID’ing, but in the meantime, Spain, Italy, France and Ireland are moving ahead with IDs or other strategies to address the problem.
The 2024 Cisco Consumer Privacy Survey of 2600+ participants from Europe, Asia and the Americas found overwhelming support (70%) for privacy protection. For the first time in six years since polling began, more than half (53%) reported being aware of their country’s law, and 70% globally (81% in the US) believe the US should pass a federal privacy law.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.