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FTC Halts Sales of Sensitive Location Data by X-Mode and Outlogic

The Federal Trade Commission has stepped in to ban X-Mode Social and its successor company Outlogic from sharing or selling sensitive location data. This is in a settlement of FTC allegations that the company sold location data that could be used to track, for example, visits to reproductive health clinics or domestic abuse shelters. This is the FTC’s first settlement with a data broker over the use of sensitive location information.

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80% of Organizations are Allocating Budget to Generative AI Marketing Initiatives

January 11, 2024

Eighty percent of organizations surveyed for the Capgemini Research Institute’s CMO Playbook series have either already allocated budget to integrating genAI into marketing, or plan to do so in the next six months. Sixty percent believe the potential benefits of the technology outweigh the risks. The survey also found a consensus that AI would supplement rather than replace human creativity.

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Amperity Launches New Lakehouse Offering

May 17, 2024

Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP,  which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks.  Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.

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