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The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Mississippi’s law requiring age verification for social media sites can go into effect. This overrules a federal district court which supported NetChoice’s bid to block it.

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Despite the state’s motto, “the people rule,” an Arkansas judge is mulling whether to allow enforcement of a statute that prohibits use of social media algorithms that might addict or otherwise harm users. NetChoice, which challenged the law, claims it is too vague and is unconstitutional.

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Mexico decreed collection of citizen biometric ID data will be mandatory starting next year. Its population registry, CURP, will incorporate fingerprint and iris data into a single platform and data will also be shared with other government databases. Then, soon after for enhanced family privacy depletion, Mexico intends to collect biometrics on kids & teens.

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Google has far-reaching tracking tentacles despite the best efforts of DuckDuckGo and other privacy-focused search engines. This is due to the many Google embedded products such as Google Analytics, AdSense, reCAPTCHA, YouTube and others that collect and send data back to Google, according to a study by SafetyDetectives conducted in the US, Switzerland and Sweden.

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France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will be the first to test an age verification app the EU Commission plans to make available to protect kids in the EU from accessing harmful content. Since each of the 27 EU member countries has its own minimum age and access rules, the aim is to allow them customization of the app in their own market.

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If found guilty, X could be fined up to 6% of its global turnover.

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Seems likely – but only a concern if you worry about data harvesting, that conversations with an AI chatbot might not be secure, or that Tesla’s privacy policy allows it to share information with service partners. Still, you will by default have a new auto buddy.

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This is significant in emerging markets because it establishes that “commercial presence through tax obligations creates regulatory nexus for data protection compliance.” The regulator also said the company has no right to transfer Ugandan citizen data out of the country.

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Mobile marketing analytics platform AppsFlyer has adopted a model context protocol, the solution developed by Anthropic that helps AI communicate with external tools and systems. The MCP allows a user’s LLM of choice (ChatGPT, Claude, etc) to query AppsFlyer data, including attribution, analytics and audiences. The aim is to make those data insights available through natural language conversations.

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In the spirit of keeping tabs on AI, fake account and disinformation detector Cyabra is now on the track of deepfakes — convincing, AI-powered media manipulations. Its two proprietary AI models, PixelProof for images and MotionProof for video, aim to detect tiny pixel, motion and lip-sync inconsistencies. Cyabra expects the solutions to be of interest to governments as well as brands.

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Has AI entered the “trough of disillusionment”? Apparently not: of 600 B2C marketers surveyed by Invoca, 94% report AI-powered revenue growth and 80% were delighted with ROI (only 3% were unhappy with it). They’re pretty pleased with themselves as well: 92% say they’re AI experts or advanced users.

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