In Brief: Canada’s privacy regulator wants to know how X is using citizens’ data to train AI models and has opened an investigation pursuant to a complaint
This comes as Musk’s xAI introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot.
This comes as Musk’s xAI introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating TikTok, Reddit and Imgur to find out whether UK teen and children’s data is being suitably protected. This is part of ongoing investigation into how individual social media and video sharing platforms handle youth data and has resulted in specific changes at X, SendIt, Viber among others, to location data tracking, data sharing, and ad targeting practices.
The state’s proposition is that businesses that track geolocation of individuals for fleet management, sales, or logistics should face new restrictions to how they collect and use of geolocation data.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).