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Africa’s largest e-commerce site Jumia has amended its terms and conditions after the regional watchdog, the COMESA (Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa) Competition Commission, compelled the marketplace to review clauses and disclaimers it found misleading or false.

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Planet42, a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $100 million in equity and debt from a wide range of investors. According to the company, the new financing, comprised of equity, credit facility and debt, will rapidly scale its business and provide a million cars globally to people excluded from traditional car financing.

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Informatica has launched a pair of free and pay-as-you-go data integration services aimed at companies that want to bring “power of data to the masses.” This makes them an interesting new passenger on the product-led-growth bandwagon, as well as positioning them to take advantage of self-service access to cloud data stores. So many buzzwords, so little time!

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“Artificial intelligence” – perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s no longer news when a company offers an AI-based product, but automatically creating advertising assets still is worth a whisper. Google has opened a public beta test for its tool to do that for search ads, based on materials the AI finds on the client’s landing page, website, existing advertisements and ad group keywords. Remember: good artists borrow, great artists steal.

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How can we talk about buzzwords and not mention data clean rooms? LiveRamp doesn’t use the term in its announcement of “secure and flexible data collaboration capabilities for cross-screen measurement across multiple partners”, but it sounds like one to me. Companies can securely share their data with each other and can enhance it with LiveRamp partner data sets for things like ad exposures and purchases.

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Consumers continue to love TikTok but governments increasingly worry it is sharing their data with Chinese agencies. On another front entirely, it seems that TikTok advertisers are worrying brand safety. The company just announced integrations with DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science (IAS), and Zefr to help ease those pains.

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Advertisers may worry about what’s surrounding their ads, but consumers are more annoyed by the ads themselves. Optimove found that 66% of consumers want fewer marketing messages. You won’t be surprised that relevant messages are more welcome than irrelevant ones.

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If you’re surprised that consumers prefer relevant messages, Jamie from our Department of the Obvious offers this IAS report. It finds that 64% of consumers define relevant ads as featuring products they want or need, 35% are annoyed by ads that don’t relate to the surrounding content, and they’re 16% more responsive when ads do relate to that content.

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Woolworths has raised ire for its dubious new improvement of adding surveillance cameras to monitor customers (without notification) using self-checkout in 100 of its Australian stores. Woolworth, which plans a larger rollout to more stores, bills this as a way to prevent “accidental” wrong scans. It also concedes its use monitoring for shoplifting and says the footage has been used for staff training (though promises that people’s faces and keypad punches are blurred to prevent identification). Regardless, customers are not being informed or given a chance to consent so may... Read More >

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As part of Brexitification, the UK is about to turn over supervision of WhatsApp and Meta data to US global regulators, rather than having it supervised in Ireland as it is now. Meta is in the process of issuing a new privacy policy and assuring UK users that this will be just fine, and barely anything will change.

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Coming in Q2 2023 major changes to Hong Kong’s privacy laws. Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner says plans include mandatory breach notifications, direct regulation of data processors with regards to data retention and security, and a requirement for data users to have a clear retention policy.

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Consumers know the more they do digitally, the more their data is at risk. According to Daon’s survey of more than 3,000 US and UK consumers, people foresee cybersecurity threats persisting and believe these will continue to outpace the cyber technology to control them. Most surveyed want more security for financial accounts (93%) and to have their identity protected (91%). Participants also said they would be willing to take extra security steps daily (91%), including use of biometrics (81%).

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