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Namibia’s National Assembly passed the Access to Information Law to give citizens the right to know about government activity, as long as security is not jeopardized. The law also obligates public and private entities to make information available proactively. It now goes to the National Council for review then to the president to sign.

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IBM Security’s Cost of Data Breach Report brings us the not-surprising-but-still-disappointing news that consumers are once again made to pay for company inaction. Eighty-three percent reported having more than one data breach, yet 79% of critical infrastructure organizations didn’t deploy a zero-trust architecture. The report showed cost at an all-time high, but 60% of the companies surveyed addressed their shortfall by increasing the cost of goods or services to their customers.

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Hope you’re sitting down, as we’ve just learned that honesty matters and is gaining ground with people of all ages. In fact, it was the driver for more than half of first-time purchases in a survey of 1,000 US consumers and ranked as the top motivator for millennials. ActiveCampaign, the customer experience automation (CXA) company reported the bar is high on social for adopting new brands, and to succeed, businesses must inspire trust and take an omnichannel approach.

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A bipartisan bill to revise COPPA, raising the age of privacy protection and protecting against ads to children, moves to the US Senate. The amendment would raise the age of privacy protection to 16 years and it would require companies to gain consent for collection and enable young users to erase personal information.

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Concern is that TikTok’s location tracking and collection of user contact information and other data will be made available to Chinese authorities, even though local TikTok staff denies this happening.

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The Colombian government, which provides journalists and other high-risk individuals bulletproof cars to ensure their safety while in the country, has been found to have installed GPS trackers on those same vehicles, so location can be reported on. Even more alarmingly, the system can also disable the cars’ engines.

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Not a good press moment for the fast-food company which has offered its users a free coffee and donut to make up for their data being collected without consent.

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Unfazed by terrestrial or historic boundaries, Amazon may be positioning to break with the 2,500+ year tradition of keeping patient data private because there may be good money to be made in doing so.

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Are you tired of bad news, Dear Reader? Let’s look today at tech to make your business life better. We’ll start with Contentware, which has expanded the types of campaign content it can auto-generate, based on nothing more than a brief description of the desired asset. “What used to take 4-7 hours can now be done in 10 minutes” they tell us. Whee!

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Have you been struggling with Byzantine B2B procurement processes? Balance Payments has your back, with tools for B2B sellers to collect funds through self-service checkout pages. Features include multiple payment options, transaction fee support for marketplaces, and an API for further customization. They just raised a $56 million Series B, bringing total funding to $86.5 million.

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Or perhaps you’ve been placing ads in video games and worry about where, or whether, they’ve been showing up. The media quality gurus Integral Ad Science have just teamed with in-game adtech vendor Anzu to measure important things like invalid traffic, viewability, and brand safety. I’ll sleep better tonight just knowing about it.

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Retailers are making progress in their personalization programs: they’re finally more likely to personalize product recommendations (52%) than show customer names (49%), finds Retail TouchPoints. Other interesting trends are growing use of traditional media for acquisition, up from 29% in 2021 to 51% in 2022, and more purchase discounts for customer retention, from 55% last year to 73%. Nearly two-thirds (63%) used a CDP to support their personalization program – more than any other technology.

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