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Shipping Secure: The app that wouldn’t guess
Yesterday I posed the question of what my app should do when it doesn’t know something. Here’s the rule I wrote down, in one line: If the app isn’t sure, it says so. It never quietly makes something up. Why I care: a value an app invents about a person or a business is still…
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Shipping Secure: Should your app ever guess?
On Tuesday I wrote about Texas’s settlement with Temu over an app’s alleged access to people’s phones, which is a good reminder that an app’s data habits are worth checking before you ship, not after. Read the Tuesday post. Last week I asked what the AI in my build is allowed to do on its…
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Texas and Temu Settled. Here’s What Was Alleged, and What It Means for Your Phone
On Friday, October 16, documents made public showed that Texas and the shopping app Temu had settled a lawsuit over how the app handles people’s data. Temu agreed to pay Texas $3 million and to change how it handles Texas shoppers’ personal data. Temu did not admit wrongdoing, and it denied the main allegation about…