In Brief: Forty-four U.S. Attorneys General join to press Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’
This is part of growing opposition to the idea – which Facebook has so far ignored.
This is part of growing opposition to the idea – which Facebook has so far ignored.
Disqus Inc., the U.S. company which provides a forum and online tools for publishers, received notification from Norwegian data protection authority, Datailsynet that it was acting in violation of GDPR. The data authority found Disqus tracking, profiling and sharing data with third-party advertisers without legal basis. Disqus said it didn’t realize GDPR regulation applied, since Norway is not an EU member.
Complying with the regulator’s order to recheck ages of all its Italian users, the company identified more than 500K who were either confirmed younger than 13 or were determined likely to be under 16.
If robots wrote the news, would they write about other robots? I ask because there’s been a suspicious burst of items about AI-powered writing tools, just when live journalists might have set things on autopilot so they could sneak out early for the holiday. Top of the list: writing-suggestion platform Grammarly just raised $200 million at a $13 billion valuation, doubling total funding to $400 million.