It also allows users to limit use of personal information and it ensures Snapchat’s compliance under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
If 90+ US human & internet rights groups are to be believed, the end-year push to get the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed by the Senate during the current lame-duck Congress may do more harm than good. The groups sent a joint letter to lawmakers saying they believe the law’s weakly defined protections for ages 16 and under could provide opportunities for censoring information about LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights and also give parents tools to spy on their kids.
A key aspect is to help businesses sort out nuances of the multiple privacy regulations, including the five new state ones.
BrightEdge reports that, despite huge growth, AI search engines still provide less than 1% of website referral traffic. You might think that’s a reason to ignore your ranking in AI search engines, but BrightEdge argues those rankings are still important because the main role of AI search is discovery, not referrals. Seems like a testable hypothesis. What we know for certain is that over-all traffic has dropped as users switch from traffic-generating traditional search to traffic-stifling AI search engines.