In Brief: Comcast’s Xfinity revealed nearly 36 million people globally were impacted by a massive data breach this fall
Stolen data included customer names, encrypted passwords and parts of social security numbers.
Stolen data included customer names, encrypted passwords and parts of social security numbers.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) may soon get changed if the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has its way. It’s been a decade since COPPA was last changed, and now the FTC is soliciting public comments about their proposed changes which include stricter parental consent, guardrails around ed tech engagement, and limiting data retention.
This comes as the majority of physical attendants of parked cars, meters and parking attendants, are being replaced by automated ones.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).