Putting a request in here for Google to come up with better product names….
The EU this week proposed legislation to mandate tech companies aggressively screen for and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM). However, while that should be welcome news to child privacy advocates, the breadth and scope of what’s proposed had a chilling effect. Concerns are that it would impose extreme obligations on chat and other communication services, including WhatsApp, Signal and Facebook Messenger to broadly scan user messages looking for CSAM or solicitation of children via AI systems. But, privacy advocates feel the general nature of such detection orders that would be issued by individual EU nations, could leave the door open to more generalized surveillance.
Salesforce has agreed to buy Troops.ai, which helps sales teams use CRM data without actually opening their CRM system. Modules include tools to update CRM records, send Slack notifications of changes in CRM data, and collaborate on deals using a hub within Slack. Troops.ai will be part of Salesforce’s Slack division when the deal closes some time this summer.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.