In a surprising privacy victory – and let’s face it, any privacy victory is surprising – the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies need a warrant to obtain cell phone location history data from wireless carriers. But don’t get too excited: the ruling doesn’t address other surveillance issues such as real-time location tracking or video cameras in public places, or commercial use of location data.
One of the biggest challenges companies face in protecting customer data is just finding where sensitive data sits in their systems. BigID does that, assess risks, and helps to manage resolutions. They just raised a $30 million Series B, bringing total to $46.1 million
For delivering ads you might not want, Adobe has a technical triumph of its own: it has teamed up with online audio distributor TuneIn to serve ads on smart speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. Chosen format is 90 second ads delivered twice an hour. The company says that targeting “at launch” is based on the type of content, perhaps implying that individual-level targeting will follow.
Incrmntal has released its Explorer platform, which uses “causal AI” to estimate the incremental impact of advertising investments. What’s magic is the incremental measurements happen without marketers needing to set up incremental impact tests. The system can also suggest the best place to spend your next ad dollar.