Private Internet Access (PIA), a US-based virtual private network (VPN) company has ranked the best to worst US states for privacy. Ranking criteria assessing a variety of factors, including the strength of local privacy laws, requirements placed on business to control data and manage customer privacy, and protections for consumers over their data and over children’s data.
Jordan’s Parliament announces approval of the draft law on personal data protection which was amended by their Senate. The law allows, under supervision of the Central Bank, processing of personal data without informing the person whose data is being processed. It also allows processing of data for purposes the data was collected, but not disclosure to third parties.
A federal judge has blocked passage of a controversial law that would have required parental consent for use of social media for youth as old as 18. The law, which was signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was deemed “unconstitutionally vague” by the judge in response to a suit brought by NetChoice, an organization whose members include many large tech companies.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.