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Sephora Data-Privacy Penalties Sound Alarm for Marketers

PRSay

Marketers are taking notice of California’s data-privacy laws after cosmetics retailer Sephora agreed last month to pay $1.2 1, 2023, a new law called the California Privacy Rights Act will take effect, expanding and amending the existing California law. Illustration credit: kentoh.

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The State Of AI In PR: Takeaways From Muck Rack’s 2024 Report

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Obvious statement: 2023 was a breakout year for generative AI. Midway through 2023, I wrote a blog post on why tech is important to PR , including a section on “the chatbot in the room,” aka generative AI. We saw newsrooms grapple with rules for AI throughout 2023.

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Content analysis tool BuzzSumo adds journalist database for SMBs [PR tech sum no. 48]

Sword and the Script

Meltwater announced six principles to govern the ethical development of AI. These include principles such as “Safety, privacy, and security as first-class citizens” and “Use open source whenever possible; vet everything else and assume it is unsafe.” Content picks PR ethics. Trust but verify. Kick-ass” PR blogs.

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How to Develop a Corporate Policy for Employee Use of AI: A Guide for Automotive Suppliers

Bianchi Biz Blog

5 Reasons Why Automotive Suppliers Need an AI Policy Protecting Confidentiality and Data Privacy – Sharing proprietary or confidential data and information with AI tools may inadvertently risk exposing sensitive data to outsiders. So, the AI policy should educate employees about ownership issues related to content generated using AI tools.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

PR and communications pros will be leaning way more heavily on AI-powered content development tools in 2023. Part prediction, part hope, and part billion-dollar idea: 2023 may (will?) It may or may not happen in 2023 but someone is going to figure out to make this work before long.”. ~ AI-written content adds more noise. “PR

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PR software vendors are starting to talk security in generative AI pitches [PR Tech Sum No. 46]

Sword and the Script

Plus, unlike other generative AI tools where you need to register with an email and phone number, we anonymize all data we pass to OpenAI, providing an additional level of privacy.” ( Source ) Cision. A code of ethics isn’t a bad idea. I wrote a product briefing on the Notified PR platform in 2020 – and an update in March of 2023.

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93 Ethics Issues for Thanksgiving Dinner Discussion in 2023

Ethical Voices

As Thanksgiving approaches, I wanted to take a minute and just say how thankful I am to the outstanding students in my Public Relations Ethics class (COM525) as Boston University. We start every class by discussing ethical issues we have seen or read about over the past week. A new code of ethics. How to be an ethical leader.

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