While the U.S. Federal Election Commission is famously toothless in its attempts to enforce standards for political advertising, agencies elsewhere have considerable bite. In response to disclosure rules aimed at avoiding election interference and deception, Google has announced it will stop serving political ads in the European Union starting next year. It had already dropped political ads in Canada, France, and Brazil.
This is due to a business-friendly bill the governor signed recently, which stated that when biometric data has been improperly obtained, a business can only been charged for one violation, even if the data was obtained multiple times.
In tacit acknowledgement that low-price Asian marketplaces like Temu and Shein present a competitive challenge, Amazon is launching Haul, an ultra-low price section of its ecommerce site. Haul, featuring fashion, home, lifestyle, electronics, etc, will price products at $20 or under, likely sourced from China. Downside: longer delivery times.
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.