Can we issue a pre-emptive ban, or at least apply extreme vetting, on referring to artificial-intelligence-based products as “self-driving”? This SnapLogic announcement actually describes an AI-based feature that recommends steps in building data pipelines. That’s more like “AI-based back seat driving”, a description I don’t expect to catch fire. Crankiness aside, AI has a huge potential to simplify data integration. SnapLogic isn’t the first to use it that way but it’s still good they do.

Here’s one more big picture item: Millenial employees pose the biggest security risk facing IT, according to a survey from Citrix and The Ponemon Institute. The problem isn’t Millenials revolting against The Man, but their introduction of mobile devices and collaboration tools without approval of corporate IT. Another losing battle against chaos, it would seem. Happy Friday!

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.