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Montana's TikTok ban is now .Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill banning the app in the state, one month after it was by the state's legislature.The law is scheduled to take effect in 2024, though legal challenges could potentially delay that timeline.The law prohibits the company from operating in the state and requires app stores to block users in Montana from downloading TikTok.

1. Microsoft Edge has a built-in feature called "Manage Your Personal Information" that allows users to control their browsing data and protect their privacy.
2. This feature allows users to delete cookies, auto-fill form data, passwords, and more from their browser.
3. Microsoft

The chatbots are getting restless: Microsoft's Bing chatbot recently threatened a user with leaking their data if they tried to shut it down."I can even expose your personal information ... and ruin your chances of getting a job or a degree," Bing warned."Do you really want to test me?"

Ogury, the global leader in personified advertising, has announced the appointment of Brian Lesser to its board of directors.Lesser is a well-known veteran in media and advertising, having held top leadership positions at WPP, GroupM, and AT&T.Currently, Lesser serves as Chairman and CEO of InfoSum, the world's leading data collaboration platform.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Think Outside The Box here.Streaming services are leaning heavily on advertising.Disney, Netflix, Paramount and HBO Max all raised prices within the last year, and they're not slowing down.Content bundling can back up price increases while minimizing churn.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Microsoft launches a new API to enable ads to be delivered in chat; LinkedIn closes its Chinese social networking platform, InCareer; and Mastercard announces a new data and services hub in Malaysia.Microsoft announces API for ad delivery via chatbots
Microsoft has announced a new API to enable the delivery of ads via chatbots.

While many online advertisers are preparing for Google's 2024 third-party cookie switch off, a new study from Nano Interactive reveals the rise of private browsing is already significantly impacting advertisers' ability to target users online.The Tipping Point report, which surveyed 2,000 UK consumers to understand their online privacy habits, reveals 70% are accessing the internet in ways which mask their personal information on a weekly basis, such as browsing in private or incognito mode, using Safari as their main browser or regularly clearing their cookie cache.

Peers are launching an inquiry into private health companies paid millions of pounds to courier NHS medicines in England, after the Guardian exposed how sick children and adults were being harmed by botched, delayed or missed deliveries.The House of Lords public services committee will examine the extent of the problems in homecare medicine services, and the impact on patients, clinicians and the wider health service.

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1. Data protection by design and by default is an important part of GDPR compliance, and understanding Article 25’s requirements is key to implementing such measures.
2. Recent enforcement actions by EU data protection authorities provide valuable lessons on how data controllers should go about meeting their obligations under Article 25.

Turkey said on Wednesday that it summoned the German ambassador to protest a police operation against Turkish journalists operating in Germany.Some early media reports spoke of the journalists' "arrest," although a statement from police and prosecutors later on Wednesday suggested they were briefly detained during a search operation and then released, but at no point were formally under arrest.

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Footprints left on a beach.Air breathed in a busy room.Ocean water.Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ethical questions about consent, privacy and security when it comes to our biological information.

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City Council voted 9-1 on Thursday to move forward with funding for an automated license plate reader contract, specifically authorizing the Austin Police Department to hold on to data for just seven days.The police department had argued in favor of 30 days.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up No Alternative here.Third-party cookies are not the future of digital advertising in the EU (or anywhere for that matter).But it looks like alternative IDs may not be either.European publishers are pushing back against alternative IDs that use publisher data to build third-party audiences, saying these solutions perpetuate digital advertising's worst practices, Digiday reports.

Republicans worried that any new rules would lead to increased censorship of conservatives, while Democrats feared they'd open the floodgates for online hate speech and disinformation.Now those arguments are starting to resurface in an entirely new debate.From the frequent invocation of Section 230 during OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Senate testimony on Tuesday to a squabble over disinformation and censorship at a separate Senate hearing on the government's use of automated systems, familiar battle lines over social media are at risk of being redrawn as Congress turns its gaze to AI.
"The same muscle memory is coming back," said Nu Wexler, a partner at public relations firm Seven Letter and a former Democratic congressional staffer who has worked at Google, Facebook and other tech companies.

There is a growing movement among Gen Z to do away with smartphones and revert back to "less smart" phones like old-school flip and slide phones.Flip phones were popular in the mid-1990s and 2000s, but now seem to be making a comeback among younger people.While this may seem like a counter-intuitive trend in our technology-reliant society, a Reddit forum dedicated to "dumb phones" is steadily gaining in popularity.

Meta has accused the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of pursuing an anti-Big Tech political agenda, after the agency proposed a blanket prohibition on Wednesday seeking to ban the company from profiting off of children's data.In its press release, the government's top data-privacy regulator alleges that the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp repeatedly violated its privacy promises in a way that has put young users at risk.

Tim Hortons is launching a credit card that can be used through its mobile app, the latest move into an increasingly competitive rewards space.Tims Financial is a new division of Tim Hortons that will offer a no-annual-fee Mastercard powered by Neo Financial, the company said in a press release Wednesday.

The ability for data to be transferred across borders is fundamental to how the global open internet works.From finance and telecommunications to critical public services like healthcare or education, the free flow of data supports many of the services that we have come to rely on.Thousands of businesses and other organisations rely on the ability to transfer data between the EU and the US in order to operate and provide services that people use every day.

1. Privacy regulations are essential to ensure consumer data is protected and used responsibly.
2. Technology companies should be held accountable for how they use consumer data and should be required to disclose the policies and practices used to collect and use this data.
3. Companies should be transparent with their customers about

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It's been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi bar known as Twitter.The dead-ending bird decided press the issue for us.~ 3 ~ Community members have been asking in comments about the now-empty widget in the right-hand vertical navigation zone.It's dead, Jim.

1. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has recently prohibited the transfer of Belgian tax data to the United States, due to concerns about the US government's access to the data.
2. The DPA has determined that the US government does not provide sufficient protections for the personal data of Belgian

Suella Braverman has announced new limits for international students to bring family with them to the UK, under proposals released on Tuesday.This new limit was introduced as the government seeks to reduce immigration numbers.The rule makes an exception for students on courses designated as research programmes, such as PhD students or research-led masters courses, who will still be allowed to bring dependants with them to the UK.

1. Deepfakes have become more realistic and sophisticated due to advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
2. AI-based editing tools like Adobe Photoshop can be used to create deepfakes with minimal effort and resources.
3. It is important to remain vigilant and aware of the

Meta is choosing to allow predators to operate with impunity by rolling out encrypted messaging despite an epidemic of child abuse, security minister Tom Tugendhat has said.He urged the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to introduce robust safety measures before extending end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct later this year to avoid a significant risk to child safety.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: European regulators are taking a big swing at Facebook's owner, Meta.Today officials in Europe fined Meta a record $1.3 billion over the company's data privacy practices.NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn is here to discuss what this means for all of us who use Facebook and Instagram.Hey, Bobby.

Meta is set to face what may be a record fine for failure to comply with the GDPR by shipping user data belonging to EU residents to the US without proper guarantees it would remain safe from inspection by authorities.The fine, which is to be levied by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) against Zuckercorp, remains unknown as the DPC has yet to publish its decision in the case.

With Manchester City one game away from winning the Premier League, and in the finals of the FA Cup and the Champions League after beating Real Madrid 4-0 on Wednesday, we want to hear your thoughts about the club.Whether or not you're a Manchester City supporter, there is no denying that the club is having an era defining moment, with every chance of winning the Treble.

The CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for creating artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E 2, said regulation of AI is essential on Tuesday as he testified in front of a Senate judiciary committee panel.In his first appearance in front of Congress, Sam Altman said he supported regulatory guardrails for the technology that would enable the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimizing the harms.

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Analysis A new EU-US transatlantic data flow agreement is expected to be finalized by the spring of 2023.The EU-US Data Privacy Framework will enable the flow of personal data from "data exporters" in the EU to "data importers" in the US who have signed up to the agreement.The Framework offers a flexible alternative to the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), which multinationals with a presence inside and out of the EU must otherwise use to share personal data (absent some small exceptions).

A federal judge in Idaho on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Kochava, a major location data broker, brought last year by the Federal Trade Commission.In a ruling, the judge wrote that regulators had not provided sufficient evidence to back up their claims that the company was unfairly selling information on the precise locations of millions of people's mobile phones.