US’ Insights Association names Melanie Courtright CEO
ESOMAR wishes to extend its warmest congratulations to Melanie Courtright on her appointment as CEO of the Insights Association in the United States....
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Facebook has revived its MR app that pays users for their data
Facebook attracted a lot of attention recently over the use of its now-defunct Research app. The app obtained personal and sensitive data on circa 187,000 users, which included 4,300 teenagers....
San Francisco bans use of facial recognition
Legislators in San Francisco yesterday voted to approve a ban on the use of Facial Recognition (FR) technology by city agencies, including the police department and the city’s transport authority....
Microsoft has launched an online code editor, Visual Studio Online
Technology giant Microsoft yesterday announced a private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, a consortium of 3 new coding “capabilities” as they coined them, to enable developers to work from anywhere, and on any device,...
US Bipartisan bill proposes facial recognition oversight
Hawaii and Missouri Senators Brian Schatz and Roy Blunt introduced on Thursday, a new bill designed to offer legislative oversight on the commercial use of Facial Recognition (FR) technology....
Breaking up tech giants with proposed regulation?
In a speech she gave last week to a crowded Queens, New York, Warren proclaimed that she was “sick of freeloading billionaires”...