A Pew Research survey on How Americans View Data Privacy found Republican concerns up (77% from 63%), Democrats’ concerns down slightly (65% from 66%) compared with 2019 and both sides saying they’d support more legislation on how consumer data is used. The survey also looked at age, education and race and evolving views on AI.
It’s official in Germany, beginning May 2025, citizens who want official ID documents (and really, who doesn’t?), must submit a biometric standards-approved photo to obtain their ID. While in the past this was met with some resistance, government assurances are that this should lower risks of fraud and document use and provide added convenience.
Google has released its Legislative Framework to Protect Children and Teens Online, which outlines its principles for laws that can keep children safer using the Internet. And, while it cautions lawmakers to take care not to hurt corporations, it alludes to the value of legislative models of age-appropriate design principles and priorities stressed by child rights advocacy groups.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”