Luxembourg regulator wants $425M fine for Amazon GDPR violations
Alleging Amazon has violated privacy laws, Luxembourg’s National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) is looking for collective action from EU countries.
Alleging Amazon has violated privacy laws, Luxembourg’s National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) is looking for collective action from EU countries.
Key items are the addition of: 1) two-level VPN for Safari users; 2) new privacy report run-downs on app tracking for Apple users; 3) heightened protection in iOS Mail apps on open rates; and 4) a new “Hide My Email” feature to limit companies’ ability to collect personal data via email.
Whatever you may have heard about martech fatigue, tech companies remain enthusiastic buyers. This Spiceworks Ziff Davis survey of enterprise B2B tech marketing leaders found that 51% are increasing martech spend this year, including 19% planning an increase of at least 50%. They may be asking more than tech can deliver: the top feature they’re looking is a system that creates alignment across people, data, processes, and systems.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.