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.

The U.S. Department of Justice has formally requested the sale of the Chrome browser among other measures following last August’s guilty verdict in its search advertising antitrust suit (not to be confused with last week’s guilty verdict in the adtech antitrust lawsuit). Google is asking for a much narrower focus on deals to be the default search engine for Apple, Mozilla and others. There will be a three-week hearing on the government’s proposals.