Malawi, which has no privacy law, currently has a children’s ID collection program underway with the intent to register 8.4 million of its children under age 16. The program is part of the national Digital Malawi program which has the goal of linking all Malawi citizens to a government database. Privacy advocates are concerned about the scope of the data being collected, potential for use in government surveillance, and that biometric data is being collected on children as young as newborns.
This coincides with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)’s announcement it is launching an investigation into Twitter, which admitted that a vulnerability affecting its servers and related to 5.4 million users had been exploited.
The Media Rating Council has concluded the accreditation process for Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel National TV measurement. The measurement pairs what Nielsen calls a “high quality, representative panel” with data pulled from devices in some 45 million homes. The measurement was widely adopted by broadcasters and agencies for the 2024 upfront season.