The company disputes the charges but Canada’s privacy watchdog plans to proceed with actions if Clearview doesn’t cease collecting biometric data on citizens and delete all previously collected.
Epsilon to pay $150M in settlement with U.S. Department of Justice As part of a remediation agreement, Epsilon will pay a total of $150M including $127.5M in compensation victims of fraud schemes resulting from sale of Epsilon data. The company had used data modeling to build and sell lists of customers, many elderly, deemed most likely to respond to marketing solicitation.
Company offers a full suite of privacy tools and is also working with the Mayo Clinic to train algorithms on encrypted data to effect compliance and legal processing around shared data.
It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying. IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.