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Good privacy news out of Google this week. First, a policy expansion that allows removal of select personal data used in Search, including log-in credentials, that could risk identity theft. Second, for YouTube and Display users, a new option to limit ad types, including for parenting, dating and weight loss. And, third, beginning in July, developers will be responsible to show Android users what their apps are collecting.

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Is the metaverse also growing faster than you thought? Probably not: CommerceNext finds that 75% of consumers have barely heard of it and just 5% visit on a regular basis. Even that group uses it almost mostly for gaming (76%) and socializing (39%); just 30% do any shopping. Most social commerce still takes place on the major social media platforms.

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None of my business, really, unless you decide to tell me. But Meta feels it’s crucial for them to know -- and they don’t mind not asking! In fact, in a joint study, non-profit newsroom The Markup and Mozilla privacy platform Rally found Meta snapping up a mass of sensitive data with its Pixel tool. Pixel helps itself to snippets of HTML code, then tracks you around the Web. This crafty tool did so with a mass of FAFSA college student aid data – regardless of whether the users had logged in. Meanwhile, a Facebook document leak revealed that because it builds systems with open borders, it doesn't know what data it has, and can't find out!

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Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.

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