Data aggregator Neustar will provide identity resolution and data enrichment to CDP Quaero. The deal illustrates how third party data enables companies to find matches and make updates they could not discover with their own data alone.

Industry news is pretty sparse these days but we can always whale on Facebook. Here’s a NYU Stern study that find their content moderation efforts are “grossly inadequate”. That would usually come from our Department of the Obvious but Senior Intern Jamie is out protesting with our blessing.

Google has given up on its FLoC cookie-less targeting initiative, which faced insurmountable privacy objections. The replacement, which mercifully does not reference anything bird-related, is Topics API, which will offer three recent interests for each individual based on sites they have recently visited.  The loss in targeting and tracking power is so huge that you wonder if Google is purposely showing what tighter privacy is costing the industry. Or maybe they’re just kneecapping competitors.