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All dispatches →WADA PIPEDA Compliance
What the OPC’s Agreement With the World Anti-Doping Agency Reveals About Sensitive Data Obligations Globally Last week, the Office of the Privacy…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE Dapper Labs VPPA Settlement: A $5 Million Warning for Every Organisation Embedding Tracking Pixels on Video Content
A $5 million class action settlement involving Dapper Labs, Inc.
Cross-Regulatory Compliance EU: Navigating the Convergence of GDPR, the AI Act, the DMA, and the DSA
The European Union has, over the past several years, constructed one of the most comprehensive digital regulatory ecosystems in the world.
AI Democrats Build Secret Coordination Network to Counter AI Industry Influence at State Level
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries and spark intense regulatory debates, a small but influential group of Democratic state lawmakers has…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Rep. Zoe Lofgren Reintroduces the Online Privacy Act (H.R. 8014)
On March 19, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18) reintroduced the Online Privacy Act, legislation that would establish a comprehensive national baseline for how…
COMPLIANCE Meta Is Spending $2 Billion to Build a Surveillance System. It Just Doesn’t Want You to Call It That.
Big Tech Lobbying if you want to call it that has been exposed for its data protection issues.
DATA Brazil’s ECA Digital Is Live. The Era of Polite Warnings for Big Tech Is Over
For years, the global conversation about protecting children online has been long on urgency and short on teeth.
AI Colorado’s AI Law Do-Over: What the Revision Reveals About Where Regulation Is Heading
Colorado Just Rewrote Its AI Law. Here’s What Actually Changed. Colorado has been trying to get this right for a while.
The Single Privacy Program That Covers Every State You Operate In
A recent privacy software demo had a client asking if they need a separate privacy program for every state that they operate…
COOKIES From Tracking to Trust: How Businesses Are Rebuilding Customer Identity the Right Way
We were told cookies were going away but then Google decided to keep the cookies.
DATA South Africa’s POPIA Health Data Rules
The Information Regulator of South Africa didn’t issue a press release with fanfare.
Meta Just Killed Encrypted Instagram DMs
Meta didn’t shout it from the rooftops. It buried the news on an Instagram support page last week: starting May 8, 2026,…