Welcome to 2020, Dear Reader. Let’s start with something upbeat: news that privacy-safe email provider ProtonMail is expanding its product line to add an encrypted calendar. Maybe it won’t turn out to be Google and Facebook’s world after all.
The News Gods clearly have a better union than you or I, Dear Reader, since we’re back at work today and they’re still on holiday break. They did telegram one real piece of news: CDP vendor BlueConic has raised a $13 million Series B, bringing total funding to $25 million.
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The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.