IT’S THE LAW (07/20/2021)
Connecticut enacts new legislation expanding protection of patient and medical data and incentivizing businesses to adopt cybersecurity safeguards that conform to industry standards.
Connecticut enacts new legislation expanding protection of patient and medical data and incentivizing businesses to adopt cybersecurity safeguards that conform to industry standards.
Jebbit’s 5th Consumer Data Trust Index surveying 100 top traditional and D2C companies found consumers want personalization, data transparency and personal offers in return for sharing their data. Use of first-party data was a trend found to build trust as was using interactive tools, like quizzes for engagement.
The central bank in South Asia has directed Mastercard to notify all card-issuing banks and non-banks that it can no longer issue credit, debit or prepaid cards to new customers. Mastercard is the third, following American Express and Diners Club, found noncompliant with India’s data storage rules.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”