Privacy by design is raised to a new level by Cap_able, an Italian fashion startup that has just debuted its Manifesto collection, containing clothing capable of cloaking your biometric identity. Its use of AI algorithms can make you look to a scan camera like a giraffe, zebra, dog, or other animal to keep your identity on the Q.T.
The United States has over a dozen state privacy laws pending for 2023. Eight states are considering consumer privacy bills. New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia are considering children’s privacy bills; Maryland and Mississippi have filed biometric privacy bills; and New York, Virginia, and Washington are considering health privacy bills.
Meta has just announced planned changes to give teens more control over ads and their privacy on Facebook & Instragram. Beginning next month, teens can choose types of ads they’d rather not see, and advertisers will no longer see user gender to use for ad targeting. The company will also provide information to teens about which ads they see, and teens will also be given the ability to hide any or all ads from a specific advertiser. Certainly, steps in the right direction.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.