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In Brief: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites participation in a public working group for privacy workforce.

Objective is to develop a set of Task, Knowledge and Skill (TKS) statements to help organizations train and recruit a workforce better able to manage privacy risk.

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Thirty-five advocacy groups and 64 child development experts want Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’

April 20, 2021

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which often leads campaigns to protect kids from big tech, has sent a co-signed letter to Facebook appealing for it to stop plans for its under-13 Instagram program. They argue that it poses multiple risks to young children and adolescents, including excessive focus on appearance, challenging their sense of self and well-being, and increased risk of depression and suicide ideation. Concern was also raised about Instagram algorithms that could be used to persuade children to use other apps or otherwise hook kids.

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GrowthLoop and TransUnion Partner to Optimize Audience Reach

April 19, 2024

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.

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