Multiple companies in payments and commerce are pressing the gas on the emerging connected vehicle ecosystem — but some speed bumps are appearing, and some of them look to be pretty significant in the coming years. It’s hardly news that consumers (along with regulators and...
“Trust” is a bedrock concept of human relationships and civilization — yet it is also flexible, able to change, and be changed, according to the specific needs of the moment. For the world of payments and commerce, that boils down to finding ways to earn the...
At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California’s similar law, Facebook’s ongoing costs and stock price plunge in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica...
Look at this way, even if it’s probably far too optimistic: The post-GDPR world is providing chances for companies to engage their customers a little bit more. Reports are surfacing that, since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation took effect on May 25, customers...
August 08, 2024
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Thursday (Aug. 8) that X has agreed to suspend the use of personal data from some users’ public posts on the social media platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok. This agreement applies to public posts that were made by European Union (EU) and European Economic Area […]
August 27, 2018
“Trust” is a bedrock concept of human relationships and civilization — yet it is also flexible, able to change, and be changed, according to the specific needs of the moment. For...
April 17, 2018
Dating app Bumble has changed its login system so that its 30 million-plus users can bypass Facebook. “Many of our users and prospective users asked for an alternative registration method,”...
April 12, 2018
Consumer Watchdog has called on Congress to enact legislation that would protect consumers’ online privacy in the wake of Facebook’s data scandal. “Facebook has a longtime record of violating privacy,...
