California once more! The Attorney General has just released guidance for state law enforcement agencies that it is illegal for police to share data collected from license plates with federal or out-of-state agencies. This protects important personal privacy, including of immigrants, abortion seekers and protesters.
The regulator agreed with vzbv, a consumer rights organization that LinkedIn can’t ignore ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) browser setting preferences because that’s in violation of GDPR. This is significant because a lot of other companies have ignored this as a user preference, but LinkedIn which said in a notice it wouldn’t observe DNT, has now been flagged for that and it serves as a test case going forward.
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) has issued a set of guidelines to help businesses comply with privacy laws as they relate to children in the metaverse. Entitled “Building Guardrails for Child-Directed Advertising & Privacy in the Metaverse” it includes advise on helping kids distinguish content from ads and includes questions for businesses considering entering this area.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.