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Look, we don’t really care about the impact on martech vendors of the Trump administration’s suspension of Medicaid payments. But we can’t ignore a government attempt to end medical support for 80 million Americans. Even if this particular act is ultimately reversed, it should end any illusion that Trump policies won’t affect your own business and personal life.

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Visa has reportedly reached a deal with X/Twitter to allow users to transfer funds from their bank accounts into a digital wallet and to make instant payments from the wallet. It’s the first major financial deal to advance Elon Musk’s stated goal of making X an “everything app”. Because you really want to give Elon Musk more control over your life, right?

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An era draws to a close as Nielsen plans to stop selling its panel-only TV ratings by the end of the year. For decades, the panel was the standard measurement tool for TV. Instead it will focus on its BigData + Panel offering, recently accredited by the MRC.

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Act-On, the long-established marketing automation platform, has been acquired by Banzai, a special purpose acquisition company that owns a range of marketing solutions. Act-On raised a total of $93 million since was founded in 2008, maintaining a small but persistent share of its market. Its sale in a cash-plus-stock-and-warrant deal valued at $53 million reflects the challenges now facing independent martech specialists.

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As expected, Meta’s X-ish Threads platform is to begin rolling out ads beginning with a small number of advertisers in selected regions including the U.S. and Japan. Threads currently has some 300 million monthly users, with 75% of them following one or more brands. The test ads that some users will see will resemble sponsored content on Facebook and Instagram.

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While only 2% of consumers worry about their data being used for personalized advertising, 80% are concerned about it being used for criminal activity, according to an IAB survey of some 4,000 shoppers. Only 40% of U.S. consumers know they access and delete their data, while 60% find privacy management inconvenient and complex. A strong majority like relevant and personalized ads.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settles with General Motors putting a 5-year moratorium on the company to keep it from selling driver location data it collected. This follows a discovery that GM had been collecting and selling the data of millions of consumers without their intended consent. This was because the sign-up process for GM’s OnStar service was confusing to users who were unclear what they were agreeing to.

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A suit seeking $1,000/user payout has been filed in the US against LinkedIn Premium claiming the platform shared private messages of users with other companies after automatically opting them in to a program that provided data for training AI. The filing also claimed the company knew it was in violation of what users agreed to and that this was part of a patterns of concealing its actions.

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Somalia has new national ID cards that are creating controversy because of speculation that they have been specially timed to coincide with the elections. However, the country’s National Identification and Regulatory Authority (NIRA) denied that saying citizens will continue using the ID cards on an ongoing basis after the elections, which isn’t really an explanation of how instituting them now related isn’t election-related.

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ISACA’s global privacy report based on input from 1,600 IT and cybersecurity professionals in Europe indicates that while privacy is deemed essential by organizations, spending is trending down. As a result, two-thirds of respondents reported their jobs were more stressful compared with five years ago and only 38% were confident of their company’s ability to safeguard consumer data.

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Key rule changes to COPPA are set to include redefining “mixed audience website or online services,” adding biometrics and government-issued identifiers as personal information, and limiting the retention period of a child’s personal data to only the time necessary for the period the information had been collected for.

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The company, which had admitted last fall to having had a breach that impacted 100 million users, now revised the count to 190 million.

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