OneTrust has announced a $150 million investment led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funds to date to more than $1 billion for a $4.5 billion valuation. The funding will be used to accelerate platform innovation in areas including privacy, security, ethics and ESG. OneTrust was named #1 for the fourth year in a row by IDC’s Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software Market Shares.
Google has begun its roll out of privacy-focused API’s with the goal of phasing out third-party cookies by Q3 2024. Google intends to enable APIs for around 35% of browsers now and will scale to 60% over the next month. Shipping these APIs is a major step toward Google’s goal of phasing out third-party cookies entirely.
Governors in Maine and Connecticut signed legislation to protect women’s rights. In Maine, this includes the right to have an abortion, protection for healthcare providers, and preventing the enactment of ordinances in conflict with Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Act. In Connecticut, laws protect medical providers from out-of-state legal actions and pharmacists to allow prescribing birth control. Another ensures patient health data privacy. Read More – Maine Read More – Connecticut
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.