I know what you like and today’s newsletter isn’t it. But I consider these topics important. Let’s start with automated data management – something that should matter to CDP vendors and buyers alike, since it reduces the cost of building and managing a unified, persistent customer database. Datometry, which specializes in this sort of thing, has announced an automated data warehouse schema synthesizer. That makes it easier to move data warehouses to the cloud.

If a chatbot with a Russian accent asked for your personal information, think twice before responding.

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)