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The UK Home Office has cited the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) to justify its claim it has a right to back-door access to the encrypted data of Apple users worldwide. This, which Privacy International has called an “unprecedented attack” that would set a “damaging precedent,” is similar to previous requests for back door access other governments have made and that Apple has refused.

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has run roughshod over protections intended to protect the privacy of US citizens, has prompted a class action by union groups representing 7.2 million people. The lawsuit brought against the US Treasury Department for providing social security numbers, tax and bank information, alleges Musk’s team data access violated the US Privacy Act.

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Virginia’s Senate voted to pass the Consumer Data Protection Act by a large majority. The bill, which proposes to ban the sale of precise location data, now goes to the state legislature.

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Teenspace, the telehealth company contracted (for $26 million in NY) to provide free online therapy to teens had responded to parents’ and privacy groups by agreeing to remove trackers from its website but either overlooked (or didn’t bother to change) the landing pages for Seattle and Baltimore. This discovered by Gizmodo has now prompted changes to those as well.

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This was discovered after 150 sites, including virtual casinos, sports betting and online bingo sites, were tested by the newspaper and 52 were found automatically sharing data via Meta’s Pixel tracking tool.

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The company did however note that, “as of now, European data residency can only be configured for new projects using the company’s API. Existing projects can’t be updated to have European residency.”

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Movable Ink has announced that its Da Vinci AI-driven personalization solution is now fully compatible with customer engagement platform Braze. Da Vinci’s content, personalized uniquely for each customer, can now be incorporated into Braze’s customer journey orchestration across email, push, SMS and WhatsApp. Movable Ink and Braze describe the initiative as an entrance to the “Omniverse,” which we hope does better than the Metaverse.

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Lightning AI, the AI developer platform, has joined the growing AI marketplace space. Its AI Hub will be a marketplace for both AI models and applications and is launching with more than 50 APIs. As with regular app marketplaces, it’s thought likely that AI app marketplaces will speed the time to deployment.

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More than 70% of consumers regard at least half of the online ads they see as untrustworthy according to a survey by GeoEdge. This seems prompted by a 10% increase YoY on “malvertising” practices, including auto-redirects and misleading product offers. Fifty-six percent of malvertising targeted mobile users.

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They didn’t call it a CDP, but Meta just launched a product to “connect your first-party data from any sources to any destination, streamlining your data handling processes and unlocking valuable insights to optimize your marketing campaigns.” The name of this miracle cure is Signals Gateway, and pricing seems to start at $30 per month. Data is hosted in Amazon Web Services and, at least in theory, Meta can’t see it.

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OpenAI has removed the sign-in requirement from ChatGPT searches, taking another step towards competing with Google for search advertising revenues. A Semrush analysis last November found that almost half of ChatGPT queries are already being answered using search, sending traffic to more than 30,000 unique domains. OpenAI still has some catching up to do: at the end of last year, ChatGPT had 566 million users compared with Google’s 6.5 billion.

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DeepSeek’s cost-effective, open source gen AI has caused a lot of excitement, but the other shoe did not take long to drop. Cybersecurity experts say DeepSeek contains code that allows it to send user data direct to the Chinese government. You’d think that might provoke calls for it to be banned in the U.S.

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