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UK Department of Education gets “F” for teen data protection

Oversight or looking the other way? One way or another, the UK’s Department of Education (DIE) now has a black mark on its record for allowing the data of 28 million students as young as 14 to be available to companies in the gambling industry. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) accused the DIE of a serious breach, which if the agency had been a business could have led to fines up to £10 million (US$11.45 million). This happened because the DIE shared education records with third-party data training company, Edududes, Ltd., then failed to stop doing so when the company, renamed Trustopedia transitioned to serve the gambling industry.

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TikTok informs EU users their data will be accessible to staff in China & elsewhere

November 8, 2022

TikTok’s new revised privacy policy, which will be live December 2, confirms that EU, UK and Swiss user data will be available to its employees in other countries, including in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and the US for a variety of uses. These include checking algorithmic performance, recommending content to users, and detecting issues with automated accounts. The availability of even limited data to China has been a concern, and the Irish DPO which has jurisdiction over TikTok, has been investigating its data... Read More >

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GrowthLoop and TransUnion Partner to Optimize Audience Reach

April 19, 2024

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.

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