In the latest crackdown on Big Tech overreach, Italy’s anti-trust regulator charged Amazon $1.28 billion for alleged abuse of market dominance. Amazon has denied the claim that it leveraged its dominant position in the Italian marketplace to favor adoption of its own fulfillment service over others.
With twin goals of safely harnessing the power of data for business and combating critical transnational privacy concerns, the White House and UK announced the joint prize challenge to develop privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). The initiative is intended to encourage top minds to evolve new solutions to address global privacy issues ranging from financial crime to health data security. First winners will be announced next year.
A DataDome survey conducted by Forrester found 84% of enterprise firms are prioritizing customer experience (CX) and app experience along with bot detection and management (79%). One key finding is that bots are being used to target high-profile events by using card, inventory and account fraud.
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).