Google has just become the second tech giant after Meta to settle – for $1.4 billion – with the State of Texas under its “Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier” law. This allows the state to impose damages of up to $25,000 per violation for using citizen data without consent.
Researchers from Duke University say that workers using genAI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are likely to be seen as lazy and incompetent by their co-workers. The finding is based on experiments with over 4,400 participants. But, as the researchers point out, labor-saving technologies have always raised alarms when first introduced: educators worried that calculators would deplete math skills, and Plato was opposed to that new-fangled memory aid, writing.
The data of billions of US citizens who use sites like Expedia and Booking.com is conveyed to airlines via the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), according to newly released information. This data, including itinerary and financial information, is then sold to US Immigration Customs and Reinforcement (ICE). In further police state news, the US Health and Human Services (HHS) agency is proposing to obtain US Postal Service data, including information on package- and mail-tracking, credit cards and other financial information, IP addresses, and images of the outsides of envelopes and packages.
Composable CDP Hightouch is introducing same-session personalization, providing the ability to combine warehouse data and real-time signals during real-time interactions. It requires caching audience data outside of the data warehouse, bending the company’s “no copy” rule. This blog post explains how they do it.