Data solutions vendor Lotame has launched a PDX, a private data exchange that connects vetted data sellers with data buyers. Lotame provides the data management technology and ensures the data sellers have complied with privacy standards. It also ensures that data buyers use the data only as authorized.
Salesforce has launched Consumer Goods Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud, each with features tailored to supporting sales reps in their respective industry. Both are part of what the company now positions as its all-encompassing Customer 360 platform, which will also include a proper CDP some day.
Best for last: in what I like to think of as CSI: Obvious Division, a Federal appeals court ruled that LinkedIn can’t block scraping of published member data because people had no expectation of privacy for their public profiles. It’s rather amazing LinkedIn thought they could win with that one.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.