Let’s just do some straightforward martech news today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with email delivery vendor Validity, which has been on an acquisition binge. They just launched a new platform, Everest, that ties together features from several of their purchases. The company modestly says it will “give marketers everything they need to ensure email success” although it doesn’t include frills like lists, content, or products.
I’m intrigued by this report that citizen cybercriminals can purchase DDoS attacks as a service. But it’s not worth a news item. So instead let’s note that survey data compiler Dynata has integrated its 62 million personal profiles with Google’s Ads Data Hub. ADH, as it’s known to friends, is a sandbox that lets YouTube advertisers analyze their results without seeing any personal data.
In two cases that litigants in the UK and the Netherlands believe could exceed €10BN in collective claims, the companies are being sued for use of third party cookies for ad tracking. The Dutch case, which was filed by The Privacy Collective, is the biggest in the Netherlands related to violation of GDPR. The UK case, which will be presented later this month, is in connection with GDPR and the UK’s Privacy of Electronic Communications Regulation.
Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.