Safe Haven

LiveRamp has locked in a deal to acquire Silicon Valley-based tech startup DataFleets for $68 million. DataFleets has a cloud-based technology that allows businesses to securely merge and analyze data in a privacy-safe way. The acquisition is part of LiveRamp’s growing focus on data protection capabilities. As part of the deal, which includes some assumed equity […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Privacy Trade War The EU struck down the US-EU Privacy Shield, the transatlantic data-sharing framework. More than 5,300 companies, most of them small or medium enterprises, rely on the Privacy Shield, and will now need additional contractual agreements directly with users to continue using […]