The UK signed an “in-principle” deal with South Korea to streamline collaboration to collect, share and process data. The deal is predicated on both sides having shared levels of data protection and the UK’s desire to form new alliances now that it’s not subject to GDPR. This is in line with its goals for its newly announced Data Reform Bill, which is intended to reduce compliance burdens on businesses.
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Android app developers will now be required to state their intended purpose for data access via the Query All Packages API or risk being removed from Google Play. The API, which has prompted privacy advocate concerns in the past, reveals what other apps are on a person’s phone.
Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2022 looks across 46 countries and multiple age groups and finds news this year is in trouble, after last year’s uptick in consumption and in trust. Now, distrust has grown both in the news itself and in the outlets that supply it. Fatigue and apathy are weighing heavily following COVID and amidst concern about climate, political upheaval and economic uncertainty.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.