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The executive promotions add to the agency’s recent global leadership appointments
Global experience agency Huge has today announced the elevation of key leaders across its global network, further strengthening its user-centric design, production, data, technology and capabilities as it looks to drive continued growth and transformation for its clients moving into 2021 and beyond.
David Clarke will become chief design officer, North America, a newly created role, where he will focus on innovation and design thinking across the region. In addition, Kim Cortese has been elevated to managing director of production and Marc Maleh will serve as managing director of technology. And, Peter Van Djick has been named president of Huge Colombia.
Privacy and Manipulation: How Social Media Has Affected Political Discourse
As our interactions with social media and messaging apps become more and more pervasive, does our data remain private or can it be used by algorithms to tailor and manipulate our online experience?
The social media messaging application WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy. WhatsApp has tried to assure users that it cannot read or listen to personal conversations and has even delayed the implementation of the new policy. Yet, concerns have been raised about the potential for it sharing user data with parent company Facebook. While the app uses end-to-end encryption for messages and will continue to do so with the new privacy update, it already shares user data, such as about location, contacts, usage and identifiers, with Facebook. Therefore, experts have explained that the key difference in the new policy relates to how users engage in “business interactions.”