Utah passed three bills aimed at controling children’s data and device use. The App Store Accountability Act requires app stores to verify user ages and obtain annual parental consent for minors; the Data Sharing Amendments Act gives users rights to delete or transfer data and to obtain consent before sharing; and SB178 prohibits use of personal devices during class.
Intrusiveness got you worried? DOGE is raising the bar for privacy advocates and US citizens on reasons they should be concerned as it pursues mandates to root out data across departments and to link their databases for more comprehensive profiles on individuals. The recent New York Times article scarily lists more than 300 fields of data this can easily include and points out people who provided their information believed it would not be shared or combined outside the individual agency.
A former Meta employee claimed company executives knowingly allowed minors to use its Horizon World virtual reality platform. Now the nonprofit Fairplay has filed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against Meta after their researchers found minors on the site.
When BlueConic bought experience builder platform Jebbit last July, it positioned the combination as “the industry’s first-ever Operating System for Customer Data”. In case their meaning wasn’t clear, they’ve now directly integrated Jebbit with BlueConic profiles and segmentation, enabling marketers to launch no-code quizzes, surveys and personalized guided journeys without leaving the CDP.