The law had been instituted during the pandemic to help restaurants recover from the business downturn. It was challenged by delivery companies on the grounds of the First Amendment for violating customer privacy.
The third annual report from the cybersecurity research team at Comparitech found less Google Play App compliance with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) than in previous years. More than two in five apps of the 500 surveyed may violate COPPA as compared with 1 in 5 apps in 2022, and 1 in 4 apps in 2023.
Mozilla disagrees because PPA is designed to potentially generate a report based on ads in Firefox, so it doesn’t share browsing activity directly with third-parties. Noyb contends it should have an opt-in system instead.
Scope3 Media Reporting has raised $25 million in new funding to support its mission to measure media and advertising carbon emissions and suggest optimizations that will reduce them. Brands that use Scope3 to reduce their emissions include Coca-Cola, General Motors and Mastercard. It now plans to address the growing threat of emissions caused by the use of AI.