Italy’s antitrust regulators believe Google may have misled users of multiple company platforms, including YouTube, Gmail and Maps, into agreeing to allow it to combine their personal data collected from different services. This is because the company gave them limited choice options.
A class action over Oracle’s alleged collection and sale of web user data resulted in a $115 million settlement. The settlement came shortly after Oracle said it was shutting down its ad business, which had about $300 million revenue in the past fiscal year.
Malaysia’s House of Representatives approved a series of amendments to its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) which will go into law pending approval in the Senate and receiving Royal Assent. Provisions include mandatory appointment of a data protection officer, mandatory data breach notification, changes in rules for data transfers, and data subjects’ rights to data portability.
Movable Ink has announced that its Da Vinci AI-driven personalization solution is now fully compatible with customer engagement platform Braze. Da Vinci’s content, personalized uniquely for each customer, can now be incorporated into Braze’s customer journey orchestration across email, push, SMS and WhatsApp. Movable Ink and Braze describe the initiative as an entrance to the “Omniverse,” which we hope does better than the Metaverse.