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Think you’re alone when you take the car for a spin? Not anymore.

In fact, Mozilla alarmingly reports you’ve got a data-brokering spy there too. Their survey of twenty-five top car brands found cars are by far the worst offenders (more than your phone, doorbell camera, or the fridge) when it comes to your privacy. Tesla was rated worst and was followed by Nissan, which gathers information including on sexual activity – but then Kia claims to do something similar. Once collected, 84% sell the data, and 56% are prepared to provide your data to law enforcement for just a polite ask. Check the reviews.

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Children’s Privacy: Mattel’s exclusive deal with Pocket.watch enables YouTube ad-targeting to kids

September 12, 2023

Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl and other top Mattel brands can be marketed to YouTube viewers under 13 without violating COPPA protection rules, as a result of the deal in which Mattel will leverage Pocket.watch’s child-friendly ad sales capabilities. Pocket.watch is one of the few third-party companies that has received YouTube’s approval to sell contextually targeted, COPPA-compliant ads.

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Algolia Gives AI Agents Real-Time Access to Salesforce, Adobe Data

May 9, 2025

If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.

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