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Amperity Adds Customer Data AI Agent

June 10, 2025
“Chuck it” doesn’t strike us as the most positive response to a data problem, but Amperity didn’t ask our opinion before naming their new AI agent “Chuck Data”. The new tool is intended to help remove coding bottlenecks in customer data engineering by having an AI agent do the heavy lifting based on natural language prompts. Chuck will call Amperity functions to resolve identities, tag PII and provide assistance using a LLM of choice.
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Google Must Face Trademark Claims Brought by Publishers

June 10, 2025
Although a district judge in New York dismissed claims by publishers that the promotion of sites selling pirate copies of textbooks through Google AdSense constituted a breach of copyright, the lawsuit is not over. The judge said that claims that the ads infringed the publishers’ trademarks could proceed to trial. Key to those claims is that the ads featured images of textbook covers including the publishers’ names, such as McGraw Hill and Elsevier.
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Supreme Court gives DOGE Social Security data access & a pass on transparency

June 10, 2025
Hate handing over your Social Security number? Don’t worry! The US Supreme Court just handed over wholesale access to the (formerly, Musk’s) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) because…well, why not? DOGE asked, which was reason enough. Plus, in additional recognition of its specialness, they also paused a lower court order requiring DOGE to respond to a lawsuit request for documents. Apparently, unlike other government agencies, DOGE doesn’t need to comply with federal records requests.
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Data sanitation less discussed, but critical for protection

June 10, 2025
Don’t need that data? Best policy is to dump it, according to Biancco’s 2025 State of Data Sanitation Report on how global companies handle end-of-life (EOL) and redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT) data. With AI and IoT now collecting more data than ever, knowing when and how to dispose of it is crucial since the more data you hold the riskier it is. And, while the focus of cybersecurity is often on breaches and hacks, proper cleaning and disposal are critical. This requires first knowing what you have, though according... Read More >
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Children’s Privacy: A third of GDPR fines issued to top social media platforms was for mishandling kid data

June 10, 2025
In the seven years since GDPR was enacted, five of the ten most popular platforms – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter) received fines totaling €3.9 billion (~$4.5 billion). A third of those fines were related to the handling of children’s data. No prize for guessing that Meta had the most, according to a report from cybersecurity company, Surfshark.
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