A £750,000 fine has been levied, but the bigger concern is for police employees who have had to move house or be separate from family members to ensure safety.
Google announced teen privacy changes for YouTube, standard Search, Google Assistant, location history, Google Play, and Google Workspace for Education. This includes blocking ad targeting, making YouTube teen user videos private by default, and expanding the SafeSearch feature to filter explicit results.
Marketers have plenty of tech, according to Ninth Edition of Salesforce’s State of Marketing Report: 72% have a CDP, and even more have tools for analytics (88%), CRM (86%) and journey management (78%). But just 32% are fully satisfied with the results of their marketing investments. They have reason to be unhappy: barely half have fully integrated data, under 60% have real time data, and just 40% can pull a customer segment without IT assistance.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.