The New York Times reports that some U.S. schools that don’t want to report COVID-19 data are using HIPPA and FERPA privacy laws as an excuse. Neither law would require withholding such data as long as it didn’t contain personal information, and such a decision would pose a health risk to families and communities.
Privacy and Customer Data Platforms go together, although it’s not always clear whether that’s cookies-and-milk together or Titanic-and-iceberg. Leaning towards the former is news that privacy compliance platform Sourcepoint is collaborating with Oracle’s Customer Experience suite, which includes Oracle’s CX Unity CDP. No specifics were announced.
A new survey by W2O, a leader in healthcare analytics, found that 82% of U.S. consumers feel the government should regulate when and how health information is shared. Seventy percent believe that companies are currently collecting, storing and saving their health data without their knowledge.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.