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Mozilla reveals global harms posed by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm

In what Mozilla calls the “largest-ever crowdsourced investigation,” more than 37,000 YouTube users volunteered to find the extent of harms YouTube’s recommendation algorithm imposed on people via its recommendations. The algorithm, which drives 70% of watch time on the second-most-visited website in the world, was shown to be spreading misinformation and offensive content, and politicizing issues in 3,362 videos identified as “regrettable” coming from 91 countries.

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Controversial facial recognition company AnyVision raises $235M in Series C

July 13, 2021

AnyVision, an Israeli company that has garnered controversy for its technology that transforms passive cameras into active security systems to surveil and monitor crowds, adds a big funding round to the approximately $116M previously raised. The system, which is used by hospitals, schools and retailers including Macy’s and BP, uses AI and biometrics to identify individuals and assess behavior. It also has an ability to assess elevated temperature, which could be used for COVID-19 or other illness risk.

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CDP mParticle Sold to Rokt for $300 Million

January 17, 2025

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)

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