The class action brought by a California resident alleges that TikTok’s pixel allows TikTok and parent company ByteDance to collect data that can be used for online advertising. The claim is that since the pixel allows compilation of broad information on web users regardless of whether individuals have accounts with app or not, the company has violated federal anti-hacking laws and California privacy laws.
Integrate’s latest B2B offering seems a bit old-school, reading images of business cards and trade show badges to capture lead information. It will be released later this year. They also have an improved data ingestion API and advertising tracking dashboard.
Unfortunately, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which has just settled a suit with Amazon for $5.8 million, Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera was found to be spying on female customers in their bedrooms and bathrooms. This comes just after the company agreed to pay a $25 million settlement from the FTC's children’s privacy suit.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.