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COMPLIANCE Streaks, Push Alerts and View Counts Go Before a Jury as the Meta and Snap Addiction Trial Opens
Jury selection began on Wednesday, October 28, in Los Angeles Superior Court in the next bellwether trial over claims that social media…
COMPLIANCE Brazil’s ANPD Explains Who the ECA Digital Covers, and Why an ‘Adults Only’ Label Won’t Settle It
Brazil’s data protection regulator has published the guidance that companies have been waiting for since the Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents…
GDPR Lithuania’s Regulator Publishes a Method for Rating Data Breach Risk: How to Use It in the First 72 Hours
Every data breach under the GDPR forces the same decision within days: is this a breach we only record, one we report…
THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT GMO Internet Pays Every Customer After Desktop Cloud Breach: A Breach Response Case Study
A Japanese internet company is paying every customer of a hacked service, whether or not they lost money.
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE Australia’s OAIC Spells Out When a Privacy Impact Assessment Is Needed, Starting With a Threshold Check
Australia’s privacy regulator has published fresh guidance on when government agencies need a privacy impact assessment, and it starts with a smaller…
DATA Brazil’s ANPD Updates 40 Glossary Terms on Incidents, DPOs and Data Transfers: Why the Definitions Matter
Brazil’s data protection authority has quietly done something that will save compliance teams a lot of guesswork.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA CalPrivacy’s First Enforcement Chief Joins Latham & Watkins: What His Record Says About California Enforcement
The person who built California’s privacy enforcement team from scratch now works for the companies that team investigates.
AI UK Financial Ombudsman Turns to Phone Calls as AI-Written Complaints Fill Up With Hallucinations
Britain’s Financial Ombudsman Service is picking up the phone more often, and generative AI is the reason.
THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT Cathedral’s Test of Anthropic Went Through Third-Party Software. Here Is What That Means for Your SaaS Stack
A security start-up founded this year by former staff of the U.S.
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE Senators Say a Secret FISA Court Ruling Is Being Withheld as Section 702 Renewal Looms
Two senators who sit at the center of U.S. intelligence oversight say the administration is sitting on a secret court ruling that…
DATA The Homework App and the Midnight Feed: How to Design Personalization for Young Users After the Meta Settlement
The biggest child safety settlement in U.S. history was about a design choice.
AI Italy’s Decree 179/2026 Completes Its AI Act Framework: Regulators, Fines and the National Sandbox
Italy finished the second half of its national AI Act framework on October 23, 2026, when Legislative Decree No.