Predictive advertising company AdTheorent has announced a product that sends ads to friends and family of targeted individuals. Clients send the company a target list; AdTheorent matches it against its 740 million device database, finds other devices in the same physical household, and serves ads on those devices. So those red shoes you didn’t buy can now chase your significant other across the Internet. It’s really just household targeting but it sure sounds annoying.

This definitely doesn’t qualify as news but we’re told that David Raab’s half-day Customer Data Platform workshop at the MarTech Conference in Boston in October is likely to sell out. So register soon if you’re interested. Use coupon code CDPorg for a 10% discount. Rates go up September 1.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.