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All dispatches →German Court Says Loyalty Apps Don’t Have to Put a Price on Your Personal Data
When a supermarket offers lower prices only to customers who download an app, create an account and allow the retailer to build…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Meta Launches Camera-Free Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, but Removing the Camera Does Not End the Privacy Debate
Meta has launched a new version of its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses without a camera, an apparent attempt to preserve the convenience…
Governors Call for Federal AI Guardrails as States Build Their Own Rules
The United States is rapidly developing a state-by-state system for regulating artificial intelligence, and some of the governors creating those rules now…
LAW FIRMS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Warns Businesses About CIPA Demand Letters and Specifically Names Vivek Shah
The wave of California website privacy demand letters that has occupied privacy lawyers, insurers and businesses for much of the past two…
GDPR Agentic AI Was Built to Improvise. Privacy Law Was Built for Predictability.
Most privacy laws were written around a relatively understandable model of computing.
GDPR Reject All Doesn’t Always Mean No Tracking: Study of One Million Websites Finds Widespread Cookie and Pixel Problems
For years, the basic bargain behind European cookie banners has been straightforward.
DATA UK High Court Clarifies DSAR Rules: You Owe the Data, Not Every Document
A U.K. High Court decision is giving privacy teams useful guidance on one of the most persistent problems in handling data subject…
DATA IAPP RegTech Report 2026: Privacy Teams Are Automating More, but the Human Work Is Not Going Away
Privacy technology is becoming more sophisticated, more automated and more deeply embedded in how companies manage compliance.
COOKIES How Tagmaps Tests Google Tag Manager for Privacy Problems Before They Go Live
Most companies with a mature marketing operation use some form of tag management.
COOKIES __obi cookie – The Architecture of OpenAI’s Ad Tracking Pixel
The launch of ChatGPT’s ad-supported tiers was pitched as a routine monetization play, but under the hood, OpenAI has quietly deployed an…
The 1986 Law Quietly Driving Healthcare’s Biggest Privacy Settlements
Old Statute, New Liability: ECPA’s Quiet Takeover of Healthcare Privacy Litigation The Electronic Communications Privacy Act predates the commercial internet.
Atrium Health’s $1.8 Million Pixel Settlement Shows Healthcare Tracking Lawsuits Are Not Going Away
We just covered the recent CVS & Criteo $20.5 million pixel and tracking settlement.