Cyberattacks and fraud continue to rise in the UK, driving consumer demand for features that protect their privacy and secure their accounts. UK bank customers lost £583.2 million ($685.9 million) in authorized push payment scams last year, a 39% increase from 2020, per UK Finance’s Annual Fraud Report 2022.
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| Nov 16, 2022
The Digital Services Act enforces new rules on 19 large platforms, affecting content moderation and ads. Noncompliance could result in hefty fines or bans.
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| Aug 25, 2023
People in the EU can’t use Threads due to privacy issues Meta has faced in the region. Threads collects extensive data on its users. Use this chart:. Determine who makes up Threads’ 100 million-plus downloads. Prepare for when ads eventually launch on Threads. More like this:. 5 things to know about brand marketing and the future of ads on Instagram’s new platform, Threads.
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| Jul 17, 2023
Toyota halted all Japan factory operations due to a computer glitch, disrupting a third of its global output. The issue isn't cyber-related but follows past tech troubles such as data leaks and cyberattacks.
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| Aug 30, 2023
One year out from the end of third party cookies on Chrome, and Google is rolling out the first step of cookie replacement, Privacy Sandbox. Note's Insider Intelligence's Briefings Analyst, Daniel Constantinovich, he explains that Privacy Sandbox APIs will be enabled for about one-third of Chrome users, two-thirds in August, and nearly everybody by the year's end.
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| Aug 3, 2023
Creating a vertical industry partner program will help Meta understand and respond to the regulatory and data privacy requirements unique to financial services and any additional geographic segments where Threads hopes to expand. Will Gen Z show up? As the "first generation of true digital natives," Gen Z may seem like the most likely demographic to get excited about a new app like Threads.
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| Jul 24, 2023
As acquisition costs continue to soar and changes in iOS privacy weaken the power of digital advertising, digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) need to view their business model through a new lens. Sales strategies mixing direct-to-consumer with wholesale channels online and offline will prevail. Brands will look for ways to widen reach and protect their bottom line:.
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| Dec 8, 2022
D2C ecommerce will continue to grow at above-average rates. But that growth will be driven by established brands selling directly—not digitally native brands.
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| May 5, 2023
Data privacy concerns have plagued the debut of Threads, and Meta was unable to launch the platform simultaneously in Europe and the US due to a clash with the Digital Markets Act. Our take: Threads could be the Twitter-killer that platforms like BlueSky and Mastodon have failed to become.
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| Jul 10, 2023
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| Sep 25, 2023
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The company has powerful genAI resources in AWS, including leading language models, but it still needs to figure out how Alexa can apply those tools in useful, privacy-safe ways. Virtual assistant rivals have been reinvigorated. About half of all voice assistant users use Alexa, so it still has a huge user base. But Amazon competitors are reimagining voice assistance.
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| Aug 14, 2023
By 2026, nearly half of US households will use smart devices—from lights to locks to appliances. Here’s how advertisers can capitalize on connectivity enabled by Matter, the newly launched interoperability protocol.
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| Dec 13, 2022
This sixth annual study ranks mobile app capabilities across 20 US financial institutions on 42 emerging features, weighted by consumer demand.
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| Nov 28, 2022
Unified ID 2.0 gains momentum as industry giants embrace privacy-focused advertising. Search experts on how AI, changing consumer behaviors, and an influx of digital channels are redefining search advertising. More Chart of the Day:. 7/3 - Summer inflation. 6/30 - CTV gains on mobile. 6/29 - Beauty and the bucks. 6/28 - Corner the marketplace. 6/27 - Where Gen Z buys.
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| Jun 30, 2023
“That gives you a little bit of an idea of how advertisers perceive social these days, when a lot of platforms are having trouble monetizing at the levels they did a couple [of] years ago due to privacy issues and a whole bunch of other factors,” said Verna.
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| Jul 17, 2023
I think that this is a win for the consumer and for the privacy advocates as well. They've been able to strong arm the American tech behemoths and Chinese tech behemoths as well. And I don't even know where's Orlando is. But yeah, it is a win.
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| Sep 8, 2023
This fourth annual study ranks the four largest US neobanks by customers based on their support of 47 emerging mobile banking features, weighted by consumer demand for each feature.
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| Dec 9, 2022
I think the most interesting sentence is if all goes as planned, cybersecurity safety labels could start appearing on products and websites late next year, so we're starting to see consolidation across smart home and cybersecurity product no matter system.
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| Aug 17, 2023
With most advanced economies having strict consumer privacy laws on the books, and more likely to follow, global businesses will need to rethink their privacy policies even if they are based elsewhere. At a minimum, the ability to shift data between countries will become harder. A federal data privacy law in the US remains elusive, but some additional privacy regulations are likely.
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| Nov 22, 2021
Another route to consumers in amongst all this difficulties with targeted advertising, privacy issues, cookie deprecation and all that, it's a very direct, experiential approach. So I definitely think there's room for this thing. And we've seen a return to in-store shopping, certainly in the UK, post-pandemic. So yeah, good idea. More free samples, please. Marcus Johnson:. Suzy? Suzy Davidkhanian:.
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| Nov 9, 2023
GenAI-powered chatbots are shiny new toys for social media users to play with, but trust and privacy are major issues. It’s also not clear if users will stick around once the novelty wears off. Crowdsourced, visual results could help keep up the momentum, and also make social genAI-powered chatbots a stronger discovery tool.
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| Jun 22, 2023
In fact, Gen Z nonbuyers were more likely to hold back on social commerce due to a lack of interest in the products they saw than they were due to privacy concerns related to sharing their personal information. The Top Social Commerce Platforms Rank Low in Trust but High in Ad Relevance.
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| Oct 26, 2022
Privacy is king: The ad-supported video gold rush is reaching a fever pitch at the same time that the advertising industry faces a privacy and addressability crisis. Both Disney and Netflix’s announcements directly confront those needs.
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| Jul 14, 2022
Texas isn’t the only state with a biometric privacy law. In fact, Meta’s alleged violations of Illinois’ biometric privacy law forced a $650 million class action settlement with that state in early 2021. Meta announced it would discontinue Facebook’s automated tagging system last November, likely in response to the Illinois lawsuit and other privacy headwinds.
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| Feb 16, 2022
Instagram’s Threads updates after dwindling usage, X delays payouts amid other debts, and TikTok modifies its EU algorithm due to the Digital Services Act.
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| Aug 8, 2023