In Brief: New Zealand lawmakers asked to stop using, or delete, TikTok
A note from the country’s house speaker warned that TikTok posed a security risk of data being accessed by the Chinese government.
A note from the country’s house speaker warned that TikTok posed a security risk of data being accessed by the Chinese government.
School children are being monitored online as never before, particularly following the mass increase in remote engagement that occurred because of COVID and due to new concerns about the student mental health and on-site physical safety. A report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) found student monitoring nearly ubiquitous, but also with minimal use training and a lack of safeguards against bias. Findings included: 1) monitoring is used more for discipline than safety; 2) teachers often lack training; 3) monitored students are at increased risk for encounters with... Read More >
This results from a mulit-year investigation into their ad practices, including profiling and predicting shopper behavior.
They didn’t call it a CDP, but Meta just launched a product to “connect your first-party data from any sources to any destination, streamlining your data handling processes and unlocking valuable insights to optimize your marketing campaigns.” The name of this miracle cure is Signals Gateway, and pricing seems to start at $30 per month. Data is hosted in Amazon Web Services and, at least in theory, Meta can’t see it.