Most marketers (60%) think consumer concerns about tracking technology could hurt their brand reputation and the same fraction agree user tracking will soon be obsolete, according to this global IDC study for Ogury. Despite this, 41% remain moderately or not at all familiar with cookieless alternatives. Ignorance may be bliss: 61% are confident they’ll be able to reach audiences at scale in the future.

Here’s a dog that didn’t bark: Google’s list of 180 countries where its Bard chatbot will now be available doesn’t include any member of the European Union or Canada. Could be they are worried about privacy issues. Maybe people in places with fewer privacy protections should think about that.

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.