New Jersey makes it 13. With passage of its consumer privacy bill, New Jersey will soon join other US states with privacy bills, pending the governor’s signature. The new bill has a number of unique provisions, including its scope, approach to biometric data, and the approach taken to include special restrictions on processing children’s data.
In a privacy-focused upgrade to its cloud computing area, Microsoft will keep all personal data, including pseudonymized data from automated system logs, from its systems Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365 within the European Union. This will keep personal customer data protected under the GDPR law rather than having data transferred to the legislation-challenged US where there’s still no sign of national privacy laws.
Being spied on and having private moments shared isn’t good for relationships – turns out this is true even when the wrongdoer is your car. Following on Mozilla’s recent study that revealed that car companies are dismal at protecting privacy (flagrantly ignoring it, in fact), Kapersky, a cybersecurity company surveyed 2,000 Americans and found 72% quite uncomfortable with automakers sharing their data with third parties. However, surprisingly less than half surveyed expressed concern that the cars have the ability to collect the data in the first place.
Adobe has announced a new solution within its GenStudio suite, GenStudio for Performance Marketing. This self-service application is aimed at accelerating the creation of display and social ads, emails and banners using approved, on-brand content. The solution will leverage Adobe Firefly as well as third-party LLMs.