Big Tech’s Legal Battles and How They Could Impact Fashion

According to U.S. federal and state governments, Big Tech has been behaving badly — or, several cases, monopolistically. Not that scrutiny from attorneys general, along with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, over matters like privacy, monopolistic practices or social harms is new. Over the years, tech titans have incurred costly fines in…

Lotte’s TV home shopping channel adopts virtual fashion model targeting young consumers

  [Lucy’s Instagram] SEOUL — The home shopping channel of South Korea’s conglomerate Lotte has selected virtual model Lucy as the host for a TV show designed to promote popular fashion brands for young consumers. The virtual human with about 171,000 Instagram followers interacts with viewers on Lotte Homeshopping’s weekly…