Lots of CDP and near-CDP news today. Let’s start with a “strategic initiative” between CDP RedPoint Global and enterprise preference manager PossibleNOW to cooperate on meeting some requirements of the GDPR privacy regulations. PossibleNOW provides the use interface and consent management while RedPoint connects with corporate data.

Facebook has more troubles on the political front: the latest is a planned French law that requires they remove hate content within 24 hours or pay fines up to $62 million per incident. A similar German law is already in effect. Further clarifying who’s in charge, the law would also use government resources to find offensive content and empower the government to shut down hateful accounts when the social network fails to act. Can you hear me now?

Salesforce has agreed to buy Troops.ai, which helps sales teams use CRM data without actually opening their CRM system.  Modules include tools to update CRM records, send Slack notifications of changes in CRM data, and collaborate on deals using a hub within Slack.  Troops.ai will be part of Salesforce’s Slack division when the deal closes some time this summer.