Unlike Google which can see, record and keep track of what you write and edit, Proton Docs data is inaccessible by Proton and data is stored in the cloud and governed in accordance with strict Swiss data privacy laws.
Human Rights Watch has found images of children, some newly born, others in school or at play – from all across Australia – and including First Nations’ children, have been scraped from the web into a large LAION-58 data set. Numbers are not certain, since Human Rights Watch reviewed fewer than .0001% of the 5.85 billion images and captions held within the LAION-58 data set and used for AI training. But the rights group sounded the alarm because of the high risks to children and because data included in the... Read More >
A federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi blocked a new law that would have required minors to seek parental permission to create social media accounts on the grounds that it likely violated first amendment rights. Arkansas, Utah, Ohio, California and New York have recently advanced similar measures.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)