China tech industry testing a new tool to bypass new Apple privacy rules
Big tech in China, including Tencent, and ByteDance, which owns TikTok, is reportedly exploring the possibility of tracking iPhone users without consent via a tool in development that circumvents Apple’s new rules.
“Relief” is not the word that comes to mind when finding out that Facebook has responded to calls for it to “do more to protect young users from bullying, or predation” on the app by building an “Instagram for kids.” Apparently having 3.3 billion people use its products monthly has left a portion of the global population untouched – are toddlers and infants next?
California’s Attorney General announced new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations and provided a new privacy icon businesses are encouraged to use. The new rules increase protections for Californians allowing more control over the sale of personal information. The regulations include a ban on so-called “dark patterns,” prohibiting companies from using confusing language or complex processes to deter consumers from opting out.
Amperity has launched its Customer Data Cloud, a solution designed to support the transformation of raw data in a warehouse or lake into usable business assets. New capabilities include real-time reaction to streaming customer data and no-copy access to customer data in Snowflake and AWS.