Two lawsuits. Two settlements. Seventeen and a half million dollars. And a media company that, by all external appearances, did exactly what hundreds of other digital publishers are doing
The role of a General Counsel has undergone a seismic shift. As we navigate 2026-2027 privacy changes, the traditional “compliance-as-a-cost-center” model has been replaced by a “privacy-as-a-governance” mandate. At the
Software engineers have a useful concept they call technical debt: the accumulating cost of shortcuts, legacy decisions, and “we’ll fix it later” choices that quietly tax every future release. Privacy
For years, U.S. financial data privacy has operated under a patchwork system that made compliance complex, inconsistent, and often reactive. The introduction of the GUARD Financial Data Act changes that
There is a particular moment in the arc of every disruptive technology when it transitions from being a thing that organizations talk about to a thing that is already embedded
Almost every mature privacy program runs a periodic Privacy Program Assessment. Most of those assessments are a waste of money. Not because the underlying idea is wrong — an honest,
After several years as a DPO, I’ve learned that one of the most useful things you can do is put together a regular activity report — even though the GDPR
The investigation Proof News published this week is the kind of story compliance teams should read carefully, set aside, and then read again. A nurse practitioner in Florida used her
As a privacy officer working with life sciences and health care clients, I’ve watched the compliance burden shift from HIPAA-centric concerns to a more complex national security overlay. Over the
There is a tendency in policy circles to treat privacy and online safety as separate disciplines — parallel tracks running toward similar destinations but governed by different agencies, different statutes,
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