The $1.4 billion privacy settlement is the largest to date by a US state, according to Texas’ attorney general, resulting from a lawsuit that alleged Meta violated Texas privacy law by illegally collecting facial images of millions of users by tagging faces on its site. Texas, Illinois and Washington have laws regulating collection of facial, voice and other biometric data.
Up to 85% of visitors to retail websites go unidentified, according to a new report from retail marketing platform Bluecore. Identifying and engaging with visitors consistently leads to higher repeat purchase rates. There were also reactivation rates as low as 10% across the board — and reactivated customers spend more than new ones.
Personal details of UK voters were vulnerable to cyber-hackers for more than a year, beginning in August 2021, due to insufficient protections by the Electoral Commission, which has been formally reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO). Computers holding the voter data had software that had not been updated and passwords had not been changed.
Customer engagement platform MessageGears will partner with content localization and translation platform Smartling to streamline email translation and localization for 450+ languages. The workflow is automated but actual translations are still done by (machine-assisted) humans.