It’s not clear yet what database was used to source information for messages which contained voter names and their specific polling places, but the Media Council of Southern Africa (MISA), a non-governmental rights organization, is investigating it.
The “Social Media Safety Act,” which follows passage of a similar law in Utah, requires social media platforms to verify the ages of users who are under 18 and requires parental consent for minors to create an account. Companies will be required to check ages via government-issued IDs or other verification methods, though what those methods will be, and which companies are exempt, is still unclear.
Software companies often have consulting arms, but it’s relatively rare for consultancies to launch a packaged software product. Today’s exception to the rule is Predictable, a suite of plug-and-play predictive models from customer data consultancy Actable. It connects with existing CDPs or cloud data warehouses.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.