Data at Work

Pandemic-fueled lockdowns and disruptions in transportation systems hit the supply chain and logistics industry hard. From empty shelves to skyrocketing prices, disrupted supply chains have brought on inflation all over the globe. According to the Labor Department’s consumer-price index, inflation in the U.S. alone rose above 8.5 % after averaging about 1.7% for the past decade.

In the last eight years, the public discourse and the regulatory environment around privacy have changed dramatically. Snowden’s revelations, 2013. GDPR, 2016. CCPA, 2018. Seeing the demand for increased privacy, Apple will soon introduce changes that will give people even more choice over what they want to share with companies. But what do all these mean for businesses working with location data?

As we settle into 2020, there are a few trends top of mind for location data buyers. In brief these are: changes to location utilization in Apple’s iOS 13 update; a shift in the location data supply away from background data and to foreground data; and evolving global privacy regulations and the need for compliance.

We are proud to be announcing new AI tools to help our customers better use location data to target the audiences they need to reach.

It’s been quite a year for Quadrant. Amid the incredible growth of the blockchain space, we have managed to design and build a data platform with a working mainnet that is capable of meeting the data needs of enterprise businesses. That is something to be very proud of, and it has taken a lot of hard work and the support of everyone on the team and in the community to get here.