after telling its US employees they had to share medical data with Nayya, a third-party AI tool, or risk losing health benefits. The company later changed saying using Nayya, which provides health option recommendations, is optional.
The City of New York is suing California-based social media giants, including Meta, Alphabet, ByteDance and Snap saying platforms’ gross negligence have created a mental health crisis that is straining the city’s resources. This is part of a larger trend of lawsuits being brought against social media companies. New York City is now one of the largest plaintiffs in this type of suit, with more than 8 million in population and nearly two million residents under age 18.
GroundTruth collects location data from apps on consumer devices. They combine this with detailed location maps and other data to build ad campaigns and then determine whether devices near ad later visited a specified location. They’ve just announced a partnership with Place Exchange to expand into digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.