Pretty much every presentation on marketing technology now starts with rising customer expectations for personalization. Fair enough, but what else is on their minds? Maru/Matchbox, whose business is customer marketing insights, finds that trust is eroding in pretty much everything (yeah, we knew that) and one result is stalled growth in the sharing economy (that one is news to me). Back in unsurprising territory: Millennials participate much more in the sharing economy than their elders.

Campaign management is worthless without good customer data, right? A Customer Data Platform is generally the best approach, but if all you want is a simple deduplication tool, you’ll be happy to know that Melissa has made its venerable MatchUp matching system available as a cloud service. Melissa announced a more comprehensive offering last month, incorporating Pentaho data integration tools. But it’s still pretty much a do-it-yourself project.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.