In Brief: Home Depot pays $17M in 46 states for breach
40M people had card data hacked; new safeguards added.
40M people had card data hacked; new safeguards added.
Consumer data collected, retained, not reported.
Facebook upsets Asia x2 South Korea’s privacy watchdog reported that Facebook shared 3.3M users’ PII with, possibly, as many as 10,000 companies. Vietnam’s government is considering shutting Facebook down if it doesn’t comply with its request to increase censorship of anti-state political posts. Read More – South Korea Read More – Vietnam
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)