The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to forgo the opportunity to crack down on mass privacy overreach of educational technology companies by deferring the matter to the Department of Education’s Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This coming at a time when the Trump administration wants to weaken the education department, looks like a big a gift to edtech companies which have run amok sharing data without clear restrictions.
CDP Zeta Global has unveiled Athena, a “superintelligent” voice-activated interface that delivers instant answers, smarter decisions, and agentic actions throughout the Zeta platform. It activates a suite of agentic apps that can adapt to each user’s specific goals and styles. Early access will begin later this year, with a suite of agentic apps to follow in the first half of next year.