The Department of Justice, together with sixteen district attorneys, has filed its long-expected lawsuit against Apple alleging antitrust violations relating to the iPhone. It targets the iPhone’s resistance to working with non-Apple apps and devices such as third-party messaging platforms and smart watches. The suit also alleges Apple makes it difficult for consumers to switch smartphones.
OneTrust is offering its Universal Consent and Preference Management capabilities within Adobe Real-Time CDP, part of the Adobe Experience Cloud. OneTrust will help customers control how their data is used by brands. It will also support personalized experiences that are automatically rendered compliant with privacy regulations.
The French national competition authority, Autorité de la Concurrence, has fined Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, Google Ireland Ltd and Google France a total of €250 million ($271 million) for failure to comply with a 2022 decision governing use of Web content to train its Bard AI foundational language model. Among the infringements, Google used content from press agencies and publishers without notifying them. Google also failed to offer a way for agencies and publishers to opt out having their content used by Bard without affecting the availability of their content... Read More >
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.