Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass lawsuit from more than 650 UK users who say their highly sensitive data was shared, including HIV status and test results. The allegation is that the company made the information available to third parties for commercial use, a claim that Grindr is denying.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), in response to a request by the Dutch, Norwegian & Hamburg Data Protection Authorities (DPA), issued an opinion against the so called “Pay or Ads” model that Meta and other big online platforms have used. The regulator concern is that by offering consumers only a binary choice, consumers are forced to opt in to services at a level of consent they don’t want and should be offered a free option of providing companies less or no personal data.
Nebraska is the sixteenth US state to pass a privacy law. It will take effect July 1, 2025 and provides consumers opt-out rights to protect against online ad targeting and grants universal rights for consumers to use opt-out tools on browsers, where companies they are dealing with honor similar signals from other states. The law is already being criticized for not requiring small businesses to comply and for having limited enforcement mechanisms.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.