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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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Treasure Data Introduces CDP Trade-Up Program

January 14, 2025

Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.

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