The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wants to regulate how data brokers handle sensitive consumer data. Prompted by concerns about data use to power AI, the bureau is drafting a set of restrictions it plans to share in September.
It’s always obvious that leaders in every department overstate their importance. The latest reminder comes from Jitterbit, which found that 75% of IT leaders say their department is the main driver of automation efforts while just 29% of marketing and human resources leaders agree. Respondents say 51% of integration projects are managed by central IT compared with just 11% managed by business departments, but remember that the majority of respondents work in IT.
The New York Times changed its terms of service to protect against use of its content for AI training. The change prohibits use of “robots, spiders, scripts, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape” its content. This follows a similar move last week by Microsoft.
When BlueConic bought experience builder platform Jebbit last July, it positioned the combination as “the industry’s first-ever Operating System for Customer Data”. In case their meaning wasn’t clear, they’ve now directly integrated Jebbit with BlueConic profiles and segmentation, enabling marketers to launch no-code quizzes, surveys and personalized guided journeys without leaving the CDP.