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All dispatches →Grindr Will Pay £26 Million to End a UK Group Claim That Its Pre-2020 Ad Stack Carried HIV Status
Grindr Inc. agreed on September 2 to pay £26 million to resolve a group action in the High Court of England and…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE US Police Memos Treat Meta Smart Glasses as a Facility and Counterintelligence Risk
The Guardian reported on September 8 that it reviewed about a dozen previously unreported law-enforcement documents, obtained by the transparency group Property…
Kenya’s ODPC Issues 2026 Cross-Border Transfer Guidance, Complete With Its Own Standard Clauses
Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has published Guidance Notes for Cross-Border Data Transfers (2026).
COOKIES Transparency and Consent Framework – The Web’s Consent Backbone
In February 2022, Belgium’s Data Protection Authority ruled that the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework, the mechanism behind the vast majority…
COOKIES IAB TCF 2.4 Compliance For CMPs
The Transparency and Consent Framework has never stood still, and it was never going to.
COOKIES ChatGPT Cookies: Complete OpenAI Cookie List, Ads Pixel Tracking and Privacy Guide
ChatGPT advertising has introduced a new tracking technology that website owners, marketers and privacy teams need to understand: the ChatGPT Ads Measurement…
COMPLIANCE Surveillance Laws in the United States
Surveillance law in the United States is not one law. It is a patchwork of federal statutes written across five decades, fifty…
Delaware Expands Its Privacy Law: New Rules Lower Business Thresholds and Target Sensitive Data, AI Profiling and Data Sales
Delaware has significantly expanded its comprehensive consumer privacy law, lowering the number of consumers a business must reach before the law applies…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA California Warns Data Brokers: Incorrect Registry Disclosures Can Trigger $200-a-Day Fines
California’s privacy regulator has a new warning for data brokers: filing a registration is not enough if the information in it is…
AI When AI Gives Medical Advice: Where GDPR Patient Rights Meet the EU AI Act
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into one of the most sensitive places it can operate: the conversation between a person and a…
Dutch Privacy Regulator Releases Free GDPR Templates for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has released two new GDPR compliance templates designed specifically for small and mid-sized businesses, giving companies a…
When Law Firms Become AI Platforms, Privacy Risk Gets Consolidated Too
A new venture called Atticor Group, founded by the leadership behind mass tort firm Keller Postman and litigation funder Gerchen Capital Partners,…