In Brief: Data Privacy Day – Jan. 28 – Call to Action
“Protect data, adopt framework, assess practices, maintain oversight.”
“Protect data, adopt framework, assess practices, maintain oversight.”
The city-state, which originally assured citizens its COVID TraceTogether program was only for virus tracking, has admitted data was also accessible for police use. Now, rather than reverse course, officials are passing “urgent” legislation to allow this and other types of sensitive data to be used for serious crime investigation.
New 2021 initiative.
Social media management platform Hootsuite has purchased Heyday, a system that embeds human and AI-based chat in ecommerce, CRM, and other customer-facing systems. Price was $48 million. Heyday launched in July 2020 and had raised $6.7 million Don’t confuse them with Heyday.co the marketplace acceleration platform, which has raised $245 million.