At this year's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced several new privacy-protecting updates, including Hide My Email. Alex Cone, vice president, privacy and data protection at trade organization IAB Tech Lab, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss what Hide My Email will do, some of Apple's other recent changes, and whether the big tech platforms are more concerned about data protection than about privacy per se.
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Young shoppers mind brands’ social stances
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The UK regulator banned the crypto exchange from carrying out regulated activities, a warning to other crypto firms to tighten up compliance or risk missing out on surging consumer interest.