mParticle today announced purchase of Vidora, an AI-based predictive modeling system. The tool has already been integrated with mParticle to support personalization with predicted behavior scores and values on customer profiles. It’s mParticle’s second acquisition this year, following purchase of customer journey analytics platform Indicative in January.
National Australia Bank (NAB) has become embroiled in its second significant data breach in three years, revealing the names and contact details of about 13,000 customers that were accidentally shared with two data service companies. Confidential information such as drivers’ licences were also inadvertently uploaded to third-party servers.
Lytics has added new deployment options on Google Cloud. Private Instance lets clients have a Lytics-managed CDP implementation on dedicated resources. Private Cloud lets companies run the Lytics CDP for themselves in their own Google Cloud instance. Both options are targeted at highly regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.