Surveying one thousand US consumers about use of online data, privacy, VR, smart appliances, mobile devices and digital services; the company found more concerned about use of data and fewer willing to share data with health trackers and smart appliances.
Cost for exploiting 44 million UK names? Great Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) just pegged it at $3.2 billion, a number large enough that Meta might notice. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the British people who used Facebook from 2015 to 2019, accused the company of violating the 1998 Competition Act with unfair pricing.
Vista Equity Partners has spent six years buying controlling shares of big-name ed software companies, including PowerSchool (45M names, including from Naviance), Ellucian (26M names) and EAB, which works with 2,500 educational institutions. Together they cover K-college level students’ data which can be parsed to predict likely success rates and risk factors; assess family wealth; and inform on religion, health, disciplinary actions, and grades. Parents and student privacy groups are voicing concerns about what is being done with all that data and exploring what options they have to engage via... Read More >
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.