Ontario’s government-funded birth registry and the US educational non-profit, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) are believed to be among thousands of organizations impacted by a mass-hack that targeted MOVEit, a file transfer tool organizations use to share large data sets over the internet. The National Student Clearinghouse breach impacted close to 900 schools and Ontario confirmed their data breach affected 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care.
There’s probably no limit to Amazon’s greed – because capitalism – but there are constraints as governments regulate BigTech more aggressively and, just maybe, the free market works its wonders. Amazon cited “seller sentiment related to the fee” in its statement pulling back from its planned 2% fee on sellers who don’t use its Prime fulfillment services. But looming antitrust cases likely had something to do with it.
After years of thinking they were in the business of selling things to people, retailers have realized they’re actually in the business of selling people to advertisers. Retail media networks are the most obvious result, but why stop at ads sold directly by the retailer? Walmart has hooked up with Disney Advertising to test letting advertisers on Disney+, Hulu, and other Disney outlets use Walmart audience information to improve targeting and measure results.