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Prompt to Add: A new Microsoft feature…designed to bypass its security policy

May 13, 2025
OneDrive’s forthcoming “Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive Sync,” an “ease-of-use” prompt feature designed to enable click-of-the-screen synchronization of personal accounts with business accounts also is a default agreement that user files (potentially including those with sensitive data) can be transferred. Security experts point out business data could also then be copied to personal accounts if IT departments don’t block this.
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Children’s Privacy: Teen alert: TX restricts app downloads; VA limits social to 1-hr/day; AR disallows targeted ads

May 13, 2025
New laws in these states and others are cracking down on how app and tech companies can engage with teens. The Texas legislature sent Governor Abbot a law making it the second state after Utah to require app distributors to verify user ages and block those under 18 from downloading apps without parental consent. Virginia’s governor just signed a bill that restricts teen social media to 1-hr/day unless parent’s consent to more; and Arkansas has a new law that 1) requires parental consent for data collection, 2) prohibits targeted advertising to teens and, 3) limits data collection to only what is necessary for servicing.
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Shoppers Lean Towards Trusting AI Agents: Salesforce

May 12, 2025
MasterCard, PayPal and Visa may be ahead of the curve in believing that shoppers will allow AI agents to make purchases on their behalf, but a gentle wind of change is blowing. Salesforce’s latest Connected Shoppers report shows that “purchase recommended products on your behalf” is the least trusted action an AI agent can perform. Nevertheless, 19% of those surveyed are “very interested” in the possibility and 28% “somewhat interested” — that’s almost 50% leaning in that direction.
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Algolia Gives AI Agents Real-Time Access to Salesforce, Adobe Data

May 9, 2025
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.
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Optimizely Enhances its Agentic Layer Opal

May 9, 2025
Today’s frontier in AI-land is agents reading external data (MCP) and cooperating with other agents (A2A). So it’s almost charmingly retro to see digital experience vendor Optimizely proudly announce that its upgraded Opal AI tool lets users create embedded agents with access to data across the Optimizely One platform. Users also get a new interface, prebuilt tool library to tackle tasks like creating presentations and analyzing web pages, and agents that specialize in specific marketing tasks.
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