The deal is part of the “Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership”. It would allow for safe transfer of data within a framework of strong privacy protections.
The same group is blamed for other recent cyberattacks on US agencies and global organizations. The hackers exploited a flaw in file-transfer software, MOVEit and the government’s belief is the act was mostly opportunistic as data hasn’t so far been found for sale.
Three threesomes in a row sounds exhausting, but we’ll give it go. First we have three items about industry regulation. The European Parliament has passed its AI Act, which still has several hurdles to clear before it becomes law. Meanwhile, the industry-backed Partnership for AI announced that Microsoft and Meta have joined its program to set standards to protect media integrity from AI and the Digital Advertising Alliance, an ad industry group, has issued privacy best practices for Internet of Things devices.
Continuing its early fall shopping spree, Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire data protection and management company Own (it is also acquiring voice agent vendor Tenyx). In addition to analytics capabilities Own will enhance Salesforce’s existing data security tools. It has been a Salesforce AppExchange partner for over 10 years.