Facebook Rolls Out Global Privacy Tool, Plus ServiceNow and Flipboard Updates
Facebook releases its Off-Facebook Activity tool to all users worldwide, allowing them to manage and delete data shared by third-party sites. Meanwhile, ServiceNow acquires Passage AI to boost its chatbot capabilities and Flipboard expands into local news coverage.
Facebook makes its "Off-Facebook Activity" tool available to all users worldwide, giving people the ability to see, manage, and delete the data that third-party websites and apps share with the social network for ad targeting. The feature originally debuted at Facebook's 2018 developer conference but remained limited to select regions until this global rollout.
In other tech industry moves, ServiceNow acquires conversational AI startup Passage AI to enhance its digital service platform with multilingual chatbots, and news aggregator Flipboard expands into local news to help users easily track neighborhood sports, dining, and weather.
Additional highlights from the tech world include a closer look at how tech-enabled companies compare to tech-first companies in 2020 IPO valuations, battery component startup Advano securing investment from Tony Fadell and Mitsui Kinzoku, and Scroll launching a subscription service that provides ad-free access across 300 partner websites.