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.
Customer engagement platform MessageGears will partner with content localization and translation platform Smartling to streamline email translation and localization for 450+ languages. The workflow is automated but actual translations are still done by (machine-assisted) humans.