The kids’ version alone, JusTalk Kids, has had more than 1 million Android downloads. Report is that the leaked data also made it possible to track streams of various conversations, including between kids and parents.
New management at the company has also promised the US FTC it will maintain a strict privacy program for the next twenty years. Sounds good, and perhaps then they’ll renew.
Vzbv has filed a suit claiming the company misled in ads and didn’t reveal that their car Sentry Mode function logs locations without consent.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.