In Brief: Meta hit with Texas lawsuit over photo tagging
The suit claims Meta’s Facebook violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act.
The suit claims Meta’s Facebook violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act.
WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) and its subsidiary, Kurbo will pay a $1.5 million settlement after being charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They also have to delete information they collected, and change the models and algorithms that collected it.
Now in beta, the expectation is to roll out the new feature by late 2022.
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.