Win Microsoft’s new surveillance game
Home self-surveillance is easy for those who don’t mind if their company adopts Microsoft’s new “Productivity Score” feature. Employees who enjoy games and use Microsoft tools actively throughout the workday will get a high score when their boss tallies employee results at the end of the month to see who’s been working and who has not.
The EU just proposed The Data Governance Act to offer companies access to industrial and governmental data not typically made accessible. The plan includes access to health & scientific data designed to be protected via a data market model. Key benefits are to keep the EU competitive globally with data and to aid research and benefit the common good.
Consumer data collected, retained, not reported.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.