Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth (PRIVCY) Act has been introduced in the U.S. House. It looks to expand the decades-old COPPA law that governs children’s privacy online, and incorporates key elements of the UK’s Age-Appropriate Design Code, including expansion of coverage to sites likely to be accessed by children and teenagers.
Despite denying wrongdoing, Zoom has agreed to pay $86 million to settle a US class action alleging it violated privacy by sharing personal data of millions of its users with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn. It was also blamed for misrepresenting its security encryption and not stopping hackers from “zoombombing.”
Google announced privacy and security guidelines for its safety section, including that developers must be ready by April with a privacy policy, including 3rd party and 1st party apps. The company also seems to be moving ahead with Privacy Sandbox plans, despite its unpopularity, and has outlined five phases with wind down on support for 3rd party cookies planned to finish “late 2023.”
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.