The suit, which was filed in Kenya in December, alleged that inflammatory comments on the social platform may have fueled sentiments over Ethiopia’s civil war.
The social media app, available on Android and iOS and similar to Gas, a compliments-based app, was recently found to have an internal database with no password that allowed easy access to the data of more than 153,000 users.
Synthetic data is generated using computer algorithms and takes a real data set, then employs AI to learn patterns from that data and finally produces similar data in volume. Gartner projects this area will account for 60% of information for analytics projects by 2024 and it will address the growing need for large volumes of data in the absence of consent for data set harvesting.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.