What’s that, you worry that centralized data accumulation can lead to massive leaks people who ignore consent? But surely anyone working with so much sensitive data would never do anything really dumb, like leaving 419 million phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts on an insecure server. Oh wait: Facebook just did.
E-commerce tech giant Shopify has dropped a cool $450 million for 6 River Systems, which provides warehouse fulfillment systems. The acquisition will support Shopify Fulfillment Network, which was launched in June to help sellers compete with Amazon’s fulfillment juggernaut. Yes, I said juggernaut.
This seems a good place to mention that B2B data provider DealSignal has recently launched a CRM Data Health module to dynamically clean data in Salesforce. Contact information is just one piece of the data quality puzzle but it’s a good one to solve first.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.