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All dispatches →Brazil’s Data Regulator Says Deepfake Risk Starts Long Before the Fake Video
Spotting a fake clip is not the whole job. Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency made that case in the sixth issue of…
NIST Says Cybersecurity Programs Fail When They Treat People as the Problem
A password policy so painful people write the password on a sticky note.
The Secrets You Tell a Chatbot Are Becoming a Product Feature
Picture a chatbot designed to keep you in the thread a little longer.
Healthcare AI Deals Fail When Privacy Enters After the Demo
The request usually arrives late. A vendor has already demoed well. Clinical or operations leaders like the time savings. Security may have…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE TaxAct’s $275,000 Privacy Settlement Shows Regulators Are Moving From Privacy Policies to Continuous Tracker Monitoring
A new privacy settlement involving TaxAct, Meta and Google offers businesses one of the clearest examples yet of how regulators expect companies…
IAPP 2026 Privacy Litigation Report: U.S. Privacy Lawsuits Surge
The number of privacy lawsuits being filed in the United States is accelerating, plaintiffs are finding new ways to apply decades-old statutes…
LAW FIRMS Zermay Law and Zachary Zermay: Data Privacy Litigation Demand Letters
If you’re searching this name, there’s a good chance you’re a business owner who’s website allows traffic from visitors in the state…
DATA Washington Attorney General Calls for Broader Privacy Laws, Stronger Consent and Data Broker Regulation
Washington’s first-ever Attorney General Data Privacy Report could provide a roadmap for the state’s next wave of privacy legislation, calling for stronger…
LAW FIRMS Waymo Privacy Suit Ads Running Over Apps Data Sharing Practices
We have been warning businesses about the risks of not having proper privacy hygiene on your website but now that is stretching…
Pixel Diligence: The M&A Privacy Review Buyers Can No Longer Skip
A target company’s tracking pixels used to be a marketing question.
Variety Media CIPA Ruling: IP Addresses May Not Support Pen Register Claims
Variety Media v. Superior Court could reshape California’s wave of CIPA website-tracking lawsuits by expanding the statute to internet communications while simultaneously…
Digital Marketing Privacy
Every core channel a marketing team relies on — email, SMS, social ads, retargeting, analytics — runs on personal data, and every…