In Brief: U.S. House Democrats have proposed $1B for new FTC bureau to improve data security and privacy
The new agency’s mandate would be to address unfair or deceptive data practices and to improve data security and guard against identity theft.
The new agency’s mandate would be to address unfair or deceptive data practices and to improve data security and guard against identity theft.
Mark Zuckerberg had touted a plan to provide researchers data on how people interacted with posts and links on the platform to allow analysis of misinformation on the site. Turns out, Facebook only provided data selectively on half the users that were intended, so researchers had an inaccurate view.
In case you spent the weekend in a cave or otherwise cut off from world news: a US district court judge on Friday ordered Apple to let companies in the App Store accept payments outside of Apple’s in-app purchase system, which charges a 30% commission. The change could cut billions of dollars from Apple profits. The decision is sure to be appealed but it’s still a rare victory for the rebels against Big Tech.
YouTube is not just a video platform, of course, it’s also a powerful search engine and it has begun testing a Google AI Overviews carousel that will appear in results for selected queries. Given the threat AI Overviews is perceived to pose to click-thru traffic in Google Search results, there’s a question about whether the YouTube initiative could depress click-thrus to brand and creator videos. Right now, the feature is only visible to a sub-set of U.S. premium users.