In Brief: Data intelligence company Alaton gains $110 in Series D funding, pushing the company’s market valuation to $1.2B
Investment will go into marketing and new product offerings.
Investment will go into marketing and new product offerings.
Users have been alerted to privacy policy changes that indicate TikTok plans to collect more personal data from U.S. users, including voiceprints and faceprints. This may also include object recognition (identifying scenery and images within photos), and location identification. While TikTok hasn’t commented how it plans to use this material, it may be partly in response to new state privacy laws in the U.S.
Unredacted documents in a lawsuit showed that corporate executives and engineers knew about and even facilitated the issue by pressuring phone manufacturers into hiding settings to keep them inaccessible to users.
It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.