We depend so much on Facebook and Google, it’s nice to have more added to the mix. It overall sounds like it could be good news for us, advertisers. Amazon’s been working hard on their advertising business and they are preparing to pull an Amazon in 2019 and just crush it. OK, we’ve seen this coming throughout the year.
What doesn’t sound so good is that many believe there hasn’t been enough public debate about such an important topic for the state, which could send ripples in the rest of the country.Īmazon taking over the (advertising) world “The bill - AB 375, or the California Consumer Privacy Act - turns the tech world’s business model on its head by letting regular internet users ask for the data a company has collected on them and whom the data has been sold to.” This is California’s pretty rushed attempt. This was mentioned in Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress, and what he said then was that “we have to get the right legislation”. Privacy has been the topic of the year and California was preparing the Consumer Privacy Act, which from most reports, seems to be a less comprehensive and less strict GDPR.
The big downside, for now at least, is that groups are restricted to 256 participants only. This feature could make WhatsApp groups much more interesting for businesses, like having an email list or Messenger subscribers. The messaging app is giving group admins the power to restrict activity within the group so that admins only can message. GENERAL WhatsApp adds extra control for admins