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Meanwhile, Simon Property Group (no relation) is ingesting first-party data from its portfolio of some 200 shopping, dining, and entertainment mixed-use destinations into its media division. This will allow retailers to build target audiences based on Simon insights. The audiences can then be activated, either through the retailer’s own digital channels or through Simon’s nationwide in-mall retail media network.

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AI can now be present throughout the entire media campaign lifecycle, from planning to analysis of results and recommendations according to the IAB’s 2025 State of Data Report. Not everyone is taking advantage, with 70% of brands, agencies and publishers not yet integrating AI across all facets of campaigns. Major hurdles are data readiness, security and fragmented tools, but 49% of brands, agencies and publishers are actively seeking to overcome them.

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News organizations have long sought ways to make platforms like Meta and Google pay for the content they reproduce. Now Google says the value of news content is overrated, especially when it comes to ad revenue. A study conducted by Google in eight European countries found no change to Search ad revenue and less than 1% drop in usage when the content from 13,000 EU publishers was removed.

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Shorly after Meta began rolling out its AI assistant across European markets it emerged that it lacks such key features as image generation and photo analysis. Because of privacy concerns, it’s a text-only version of the chatbot. And Meta emphasizes it was not trained on first-party data of EU users.

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More than 60% of consumers resent brands placing the onus on them to protect their own data and privacy according to the latest Digital Trust Index report from Thales. More than 80% abandoned a brand last year because of privacy concerns. Nineteen percent learned that their personal data had been compromised in the past year and while banking remains the most trusted sector, less than a third of the 16-24 age group have faith in it (down from 44% last year).

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23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and its customers are being advised to request immediate deletion of their data to avoid their genetic data being sold off. The company, which holds data of ~7 million customers, suffered a massive breach in 2023 and faced a subsequent loss of consumer trust which began a spiral fall.

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California is intent on companies respecting and responding adequately to consumer privacy rights requests as outlined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Honda Motor Company just received a $632,500 administrative fine for not complying. Reasons included the company requesting excessive information and verifications to submit a deletion request.

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The Genomic Data Protection Act has been proposed in the US Senate in a bilateral move to protect genomic information, such as DNA, RNA and genetic data. This federal initiative follows several states, including Nevada and Virginia, having passed their own genetic data protection laws.

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A Norwegian man curious to find out what, if anything, ChatGPT knew on a very familiar topic – researched himself. And it did in fact know more than he felt it needed to about himself, his family and location – but what stopped him in his tracks was it also erroneously claimed he was a convicted criminal, who’d killed several of his children and that he’d been in prison. All possible when ChatGPT hallucinates as it sometimes does – and terrifying for us in the real world!

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Federal and state laws were broken, since PSEA took 8+ months to notify them.

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