Turkey’s parliament just passed amendments that raise significant human rights concerns for changes to laws governing censorship, journalism, and social media. This includes empowering its government with the ability to compel social media companies to comply with requests to take down online content and hand over user data. And, companies unwilling to comply, can face “internet throttling,” which means their company bandwidth would be clipped.
A landmark case, believed to be the first jury verdict in an Illinois privacy biometrics case, has entered a $228 million judgement against BNSF Railway favoring the 45,000-member class-action. While BNSF plans to appeal, if the decision holds, each class action member could get approximately $5,000.
Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey of 2600 adults in 12 countries, found 84% of consumers equate how a company handles their data with how much they are valued by that company – a number that increased ten percentage points since 2019. Close to half of all surveyed, 43%, don’t feel able to protect their data due to lack of corporate transparency.
Incrmntal has released its Explorer platform, which uses “causal AI” to estimate the incremental impact of advertising investments. What’s magic is the incremental measurements happen without marketers needing to set up incremental impact tests. The system can also suggest the best place to spend your next ad dollar.