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.
Tofu has raised $12 million in Series A funding to support the ongoing development of its AI-powered unified marketing platform. Identifying worsening “martech bloat” as a problem for GTM teams, Tofu is proffering its platform as an integrated marketing solution with gen AI embedded. This intended to avoid the adoption of multiple AI-related tools with overlapping functionality.