Responding to legal pushback since it launched in Chile a year ago, Worldcoin will now bar children and adolescents from using biometric iris-scans in exchange for WLD tokens. The practice, which did not include requiring age-verification, prompted controversy and legal challenges. It has, unfortunately, so far resulted in the firm collecting scans on a whopping 1% of the Chilean population.
The Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RI-DTPPA) has just become the newest US state law and will take effect in 2026. It puts obligations on controllers that process personal data, either by doing business in the state or providing products or services to residents. Much of the protection is similar to that provided in other states, including confirmation of data, and the right for users to correct, delete, and opt-out of targeted advertising. However, the law does not obligate use of a user-selected universal opt-out mechanism (UOOM)... Read More >
Human Rights Watch has found images of children, some newly born, others in school or at play – from all across Australia – and including First Nations’ children, have been scraped from the web into a large LAION-58 data set. Numbers are not certain, since Human Rights Watch reviewed fewer than .0001% of the 5.85 billion images and captions held within the LAION-58 data set and used for AI training. But the rights group sounded the alarm because of the high risks to children and because data included in the... Read More >
The Trade Desk has announced a definitive agreement to acquire digital advertising data company Sincera. Sincera helps advertisers evaluate the quality of data provided by publishers and thus more accurately assess the value of ad impressions. With the integration, The Trade Desk will also be able to show publishers the data signals most valued by advertisers.