The EU Court of Justice was especially feisty last week, issuing several rules that put new constraints on credit agencies.  Most significantly, the Court determined that calculated credit scores are automated decision making, which GDPR prohibits without user consent. The Court also limited data retention and gave national courts the right to review decisions by national data protection authorities, which have often been notably lax in their enforcement efforts.

The meaning of “Composable CDP” depends mostly on what the person using it is trying to sell you, but Composable Commerce has a clearer definition, backed by standards of the vendor-neutral MACH Alliance.  Bloomreach, the only CDP that’s also a MACH member, just partnered with commerce platform Spryker to make Spryker functions more accessible to Bloomreach personalization and search.  Consider it a reminder that connecting one composable system to another is not entirely effortless.

Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.