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?

Customer data platform Blueshift has announced two new AI agents to help marketers work more efficiently. Compass is a “growth engine” that looks for under-engaged audiences and predicts what ideas should be prioritized. Launchpad assembles audiences and dynamic content based on Blueshift’s unified customer data layer.