One of the biggest challenges companies face in protecting customer data is just finding where sensitive data sits in their systems. BigID does that, assess risks, and helps to manage resolutions. They just raised a $30 million Series B, bringing total to $46.1 million
CDP mParticle has added an integration with Google Customer Match, making it easier to send mParticle audiences for Google to match against. mParticle already had similar integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Snapchat. I’m not sure this qualifies as newsworthy but you do seem to like items that feature CDP vendors, Dear Reader.
In a surprising privacy victory – and let’s face it, any privacy victory is surprising – the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies need a warrant to obtain cell phone location history data from wireless carriers. But don’t get too excited: the ruling doesn’t address other surveillance issues such as real-time location tracking or video cameras in public places, or commercial use of location data.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.