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How Plaintiff Firms Use Meta Pixel Demand Letters: ECPA Procurement, the Crime-Tort Exception, and Twelve Add-On Claims LAW FIRMS
LAW FIRMS· Nov 10, 2026·12 min read

How Plaintiff Firms Use Meta Pixel Demand Letters: ECPA Procurement, the Crime-Tort Exception, and Twelve Add-On Claims

Demand letters built around the Meta Pixel are no longer limited to a single California wiretap statute.

RB Rex Bautista Read →
Meta Takes Instagram’s AI Age Estimation Global. Every Age Gate Is Also a Data Pipeline COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Nov 10, 2026·9 min read

Meta Takes Instagram’s AI Age Estimation Global. Every Age Gate Is Also a Data Pipeline

Meta said on November 9, 2026 that it is expanding its AI age-estimation technology to Instagram users worldwide, so that people it…

SS Sam Seliger Read →
Sixteen EU Countries Missed the AI Act Deadline to Name Enforcers. What It Means for Companies AI
AI· Nov 10, 2026·8 min read

Sixteen EU Countries Missed the AI Act Deadline to Name Enforcers. What It Means for Companies

The EU AI Act told every member state to name the national authorities that would enforce it by August 2, 2025.

RB Rex Bautista Read →
Build a Data Inventory You Can Verify: Data Maps, Owners and Evidence COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Nov 8, 2026·13 min read

Build a Data Inventory You Can Verify: Data Maps, Owners and Evidence

A spreadsheet listing your software is not enough to explain what happens to personal information.

RR Richart Ruddie Read →
CISA, NSA and Australia’s ACSC Publish Post-Quantum Questions to Ask Your Vendors COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Nov 6, 2026·8 min read

CISA, NSA and Australia’s ACSC Publish Post-Quantum Questions to Ask Your Vendors

On November 5, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber…

RB Rex Bautista Read →
Sony Can’t Send Its Smart TV Tracking Case to Arbitration. Most of the Claims Now Have to Be Rewritten DATA
DATA· Nov 5, 2026·9 min read

Sony Can’t Send Its Smart TV Tracking Case to Arbitration. Most of the Claims Now Have to Be Rewritten

Sony Electronics will have to defend its smart TV tracking case in federal court rather than in private arbitration.

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Children Already Confide in Chatbots. A New Survey Tests Whether the EU KIDS Act Draws Its Age Lines in the Right Place AI
AI· Nov 5, 2026·9 min read

Children Already Confide in Chatbots. A New Survey Tests Whether the EU KIDS Act Draws Its Age Lines in the Right Place

The European Union is about to decide how old a child must be to use social media, and the debate has mostly…

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
When AI Use Becomes a KPI, Usage Logs Become Employee Monitoring Data AI
AI· Nov 3, 2026·8 min read

When AI Use Becomes a KPI, Usage Logs Become Employee Monitoring Data

A growing number of employers have stopped encouraging AI use and started requiring it.

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
GM’s Three Settlements Show Why Privacy Laws Make Consumer Protection Enforcement Hit Harder COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Oct 30, 2026·10 min read

GM’s Three Settlements Show Why Privacy Laws Make Consumer Protection Enforcement Hit Harder

When General Motors agreed on October 29, 2026 to pay $220 million to 36 state attorneys general, most of the coverage, including…

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Ofcom Says Age Checks at 16 Can Work. Its Own Assessment Shows What They Will Cost COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Oct 29, 2026·1 min read

Ofcom Says Age Checks at 16 Can Work. Its Own Assessment Shows What They Will Cost

If the UK goes ahead with a social media ban for under-16s, platforms will need a reliable way to tell a 15-year-old…

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
Streaks, Push Alerts and View Counts Go Before a Jury as the Meta and Snap Addiction Trial Opens COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Oct 29, 2026·6 min read

Streaks, Push Alerts and View Counts Go Before a Jury as the Meta and Snap Addiction Trial Opens

Jury selection began on Wednesday, October 28, in Los Angeles Superior Court in the next bellwether trial over claims that social media…

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Brazil’s ANPD Explains Who the ECA Digital Covers, and Why an ‘Adults Only’ Label Won’t Settle It COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE· Oct 29, 2026·7 min read

Brazil’s ANPD Explains Who the ECA Digital Covers, and Why an ‘Adults Only’ Label Won’t Settle It

Brazil’s data protection regulator has published the guidance that companies have been waiting for since the Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents…

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