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In Brief: New York State, which does not yet have a privacy law, found 13 popular ecommerce sites in violation of state consumer protection laws that do cover privacy

The state has published guidance information for businesses and consumers on how to comply and have privacy protected. These are: the Website Privacy Controls: A Guide for Business and A Consumer Guide to Web Tracking.

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In Brief: California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is critically flawed because it mandates businesses to accept global opt-outs by consumers but doesn’t obligate browsers to offer comprehensive opt-out mechanisms

August 6, 2024

So says a report from non-profit Consumer Watchdog, which also charges that advertisers are continuing to pay for and get access to consumer data even though companies claim they are not selling or sharing it. Do you believe in magic?

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Census Launches Universal Data Platform

August 5, 2024

Data activation and reverse ETL platform Census is launching Universal Data Platform, which provides data governance, transformation and activation functions to create CDP-style customer profiles in a cloud data warehouse.  Features are designed for use by both business and technical users. Census’ blog post notes that “composable CDPs” have focused only on activation, but doesn’t mention that some “composable” vendors now offer more.

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CDP Industry is Growing Again: CDP Institute

July 10, 2025

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).

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