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AI-powered video generation startup HeyGen has raised $60 million in Series A funding. Its special power is generating videos from natural language prompts, without those pesky cameras, casts and crews. The funding will support the product roadmap, but also security, AI ethics and trust.

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Treasure Data has introduced Live Connect as an enterprise zero copy option for data activation in the data warehouse. Designed to work with all major data warehouses, Live Connect creates no persistent copy of data and does not rely on ETL. Batch copy still exists as an option too.

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As Disney+ prepares to launch in Latin America, Disney is bringing a range of audience solutions to the global market for the first time. Beginning in Latin America, Disney will offer its first-party data Audience Graph and its data clean room technology. Disney’s new Bridge ID solution will enable advertisers to activate their audiences against Disney’s in a privacy-compliant way.

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No fewer than 47% of media buyers plan to use attention metrics on their buys in 2024, according to a survey of 1,000 decision-makers by DoubleVerify. Two other growing trends: impression volume on made-for-advertising content increased 19% YoY and retail media is expected to hoover up one fifth of global digital ad spend in 2024. AI got a bad report with more than half of those surveyed thinking it detrimentally affected media quality.

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Apple, which only three months ago received a 1.8 billion euro (US$1.9 billion) fine from the EU related to music streaming access, has been told its App Store is breaching digital competition rules and the fine could be up to 10% of its $383 billion annual global revenue if it repeats the offense. This is the first time a company has been accused of breaching the Digital Markets Act, which is aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.

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The suit, which combined complaints from across the US was brought against Clearview for mass collection of facial images to create a database that other companies used for marketing. The case is unique in giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, which could amount to more than $50 million. Concern is that this does not stop Clearview from harvesting and selling images or using it to train AI.

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The US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule amending the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and that goes into effect this month. This was instituted by the Federal government in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling to not protect abortion rights and is designed to protect individual privacy and the integrity of the provider-patient relationship.

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A US Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to address allegations that claimed TikTok misled US consumers about data security, has changed to instead pursue a lawsuit charging the company with children’s privacy violations.

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Reason is the leads provided did not grant permission to have the data collected, stored or used.

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The organization, which provides underserved young Africans with digital opportunities, released the information with pre-action notice to government organizations.

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In preliminary findings, European regulators have found Apple in violation of the Digital Marketing Act, for example by restricting app developers’ abilities to redirect consumers to cheaper services. Apple has 12 months to come into compliance or face a fine up to 10% of its annual global revenue. Reports suggest Meta may be the next to face charges.

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Amazon is partnering with AI-powered retail intelligence platform Stackline to launch an attribution solution that will enable advertisers to correlate Amazon advertising with consumer purchases across multiple retailers. Stackline builds individual-level profiles by merging customer purchase data from multiple retailers.

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