After several delays, Google has finally begun to deprecate third-party cookies in its widely used Chrome browser. The initial step, taken on January 4, was to offer a randomly chosen 1% of Chrome users (some 30 million people) the opportunity to opt out of being tracked. Full deprecation of cookies is still set for later this year.
Fullthrottle.ai, a first-party data provider for brands and agencies, has launched SafeMatch, a household-level identity resolution solution. SafeMatch will ingest transaction data and connect it with household customer profiles in a privacy-compliant manner. It will also help connect site visits with sales, thus offering attribution insights.
Relay42, the intelligent journey orchestration platform, has announced a program to help digital marketers adapt their marketing strategies to the deprecation of third-party cookies (the announcement was deliberately timed to coincide with Google’s first phase-out steps). The program will involve integration with Google Privacy Sandbox, enhanced first-party data activation, and strategic advice for cookieless solutions. The expert advice will include counseling on the use of data clean rooms, identity graphs and other technologies.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.