The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is the first federal privacy bill to pass committee markup. In this intelligence piece, we look at the proposed bill’s provisions and consider its potential impact on different types of alternative data.

Nearly one year since we discussed the fallout from App Annie’s SEC settlement, we return to the app data landscape. We analyse the current state of the market, how the leaders distinguish themselves and consider what the future may hold.

Why does it seem that few Japanese alternative data providers adopt natural language processing technology? When a Japanese provider claims to adopt AI-driven NLP for sentiment analysis, we often find it comprises little more than user ratings and supervised text classification. In this report, we will explain the challenges in Japanese language text mining and highlight a few vanguard providers tackling such obstacles in Japan.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently published three new data-related regulations, including “Measures on the Security Assessment of Cross-Border Data Transfer”. In this intelligence report, we summarise the latest developments in the Chinese data-related regulatory framework and moves by key industry stakeholders.