Susan Hoffman, global executive creative director of Wieden+Kennedy, has been named honorary president and overall jury chair for the 54th Kinsale Shark Awards, the three-day (Sept. 22-24) international festival focused on unconditional creativity. The fest is held in the picturesque town of Kinsale, 20 minutes outside of Cork.
Additionally Creative Social will curate Kinsale Shark’s Creative Speaker Program, featuring Laura Jordan Bambach, creative partner of Mr President, and Mr Bingo, a charismatic illustrator whose clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired, The Tate and the BBC.
Daniele Fianduca, co-founder of Creative Social, said, “For us it is an amazing opportunity, and an honor, to bring our skills of creative curation to Kinsale. We’ve been delivering inspiring events to industry creative leaders for over a decade now, and we are looking forward to delivering a fresh approach to a festival which is entirely focused on rewarding creativity. It also provides our global Socials who can’t make CS Mumbai in November, an opportunity to hop across to Ireland for some much needed inspiration!”
A total of 40 judges, will sit across 9 juries. There is a truly international coterie with members from Australia, Austria, China, France, India, Italy, New Zealand, The Netherlands, UK and USA, all arriving in Kinsale on festival week to judge the entries.
This year, some product categories have been re-defined to reflect the continuously changing landscape of the advertising industry. Further awards for writing, humor, artist’s performance and postproduction colorists have been added to the Craft sections. Music & Sound Categories have also been re-shaped.
South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
South Korea's privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers.
It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, handles private information.
Following a four-year investigation, South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, from July 2018 to March 2022.
It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.
South Korea's privacy law provides strict protection for information related to personal beliefs, political views and sexual behavior, and bars companies from processing or using such data without the specific consent of the person involved.
The commission said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing the pages the Facebook users liked or the advertisements they clicked on.
The company categorized ads to identify users interested in themes such as specific religions, same-sex and transgender issues, and issues related to North Korean escapees, said Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta.
"While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualized services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent," Lee said.
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