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Google and Yahoo’s 2024 Email Policy Updates: What You Need to Know

The MatrixFiles

2024 is shaping up to be THE year of safer email, starting with big email authentication policy updates from Google and Yahoo, which will take effect on February 1st, 2024. These policy changes will impact what email Google and Yahoo will accept and deliver to their users’ inboxes, in an effort to decrease spam and spoofing.

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Apple’s app tracking policy reportedly cost social media platforms nearly $10 billion

The Verge

Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy that requires apps to ask permission to track users’ data. The policy went into effect in April , barring apps from tracking users if they opt out. Apple’s new policy will force social platforms and other apps to get more creative with their advertising.

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2025 Social Media Statistics for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. LinkedIn ] 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. Facebook Facebook has 3.05 Similarweb ] 61.7% of their followers on Facebook.

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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Futurism

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. Pinterest has promoted tools like a feature that lets users search by body type and its AI-powered ad suite, which according to Pinterest's most recent earnings report has boosted ad spending on the platform.

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Instagram will restrict teens from going Live, as Teen Accounts expand to Facebook and Messenger

Mashable Tech

Teens on Instagram won't be able to broadcast Live to their friends without getting parental permission first, as Meta amps up youth safety features for its Teen Accounts across all its platforms. Teen Accounts have quickly become Meta's flagship youth product, said Tara Hopkins, global director of public policy at Instagram.

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Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts

Mashable Tech

For years, educators and parents have implored Instagram to address student bullying and harassment that often starts on the company's platform and later shows up in the classroom. Now the platform, which is owned by Meta , is rolling out a program that allows educators to directly report safety issues like bullying directly to Instagram.

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FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data

Ars Technica

This includes genetic information, biological DNA samples, health information, ancestry and genealogy information, personal contact information, payment and billing information, and other information, such as messages that genetic relatives can send each other through the platform.

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