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.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.