Rex Bautista
Posted articles 60 TOTAL
COOKIES fr Cookie: What It Is and How Meta Uses It for Advertising
The fr cookie is Meta’s main advertising cookie.
The Death of the “Vanity Banner”: As Shopify Clamps Down on Broken Privacy Apps, E-Commerce Faces a Real Compliance Reckoning
For years, the e-commerce playbook for data privacy was simple, cheap, and dangerously superficial: install a $5-a-month cookie app, match the banner…
DATA Privacy UX Platforms in 2027: Captain Compliance and 11 Alternatives
A privacy choice has to change what happens to someone’s data.
Shopify App Store Purge Raises Security and Data Privacy Concerns for Millions of Merchants
Hundreds of third-party applications have disappeared from the Shopify App Store during October 2026, as a series of confirmed security incidents exposed…
LAW FIRMS Leak-Site Listings of Law Firms Jumped 39%. Why Outside Counsel Belongs in Your Vendor Risk Program
Criminal extortion groups publicly named 455 legal organizations on their data leak sites in the year to August 2026, up 39 percent…
NEWS Lyft Pays $1.8 Million Because Its Opt-Out Lived on a Webpage, Not in the App
Lyft will pay $1.8 million in civil penalties to settle allegations that it sold and shared California users’ personal information for in-app…
GDPR The EDPS Sets Its Terms for Sharing EU Border Data With the US
The European Data Protection Supervisor has warned again that sharing border and visa data with the United States must come with safeguards…
DATA The OECD Built a Catalogue of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies. Here Is How to Use It Without Overrating It
The OECD has launched a Global Repository for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, a public toolkit meant to help organizations pick a privacy-enhancing technology (PET)…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE Norway Raises Its National Cyber Risk Level to High and Tells Every Organization What to Fix
Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) has raised the national cyber risk level to “high” and, for the first time, published that assessment…
NEWS DOJ Will Appeal After Judge Refuses to Let TikTok Out of Its 2019 Children’s Privacy Order
The Justice Department says it will appeal a federal judge’s refusal to approve its proposed settlement with TikTok, a deal that would…
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.
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…
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