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All dispatches →Atrium Health’s $1.8 Million Pixel Settlement Shows Healthcare Tracking Lawsuits Are Not Going Away
We just covered the recent CVS & Criteo $20.5 million pixel and tracking settlement.
CVS’s $20.5M Web Tracker Settlement Is the Fifth Reason Healthcare Can’t Treat Pixels as a Marketing Decision
CVS Health and digital advertising firm Criteo have agreed to pay $20.5 million to settle claims that web trackers embedded on CVS’s…
COOKIES Cookie Compliance Consulting: What a Managed Cookie Consent Service Should Actually Do
For many companies, cookie compliance starts with a familiar project: choose a consent platform, install a banner, categorize the cookies and move…
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…
Consent Banner Litigation: When the Compliance Fix Becomes the Target
Cookie consent banners were adopted as a shield against privacy class actions and a tool for statutory compliance under laws like the…
COOKIES Do Ad Blockers Send the GPC Signal? Which Ad Blockers Support Global Privacy Control
Short answer: some ad blockers send the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, but many do not.
Pixel Diligence: The M&A Privacy Review Buyers Can No Longer Skip
A target company’s tracking pixels used to be a marketing question.
COOKIES Tracking Pixel vs. Cookie: Differences, How They Work Together, and Legal Risks
In November 2025, a federal court in California allowed a lawsuit against Adidas to proceed on the theory that its website’s tracking…
COOKIES What Is a Session Cookie? (With a Real Example and DevTools Walkthrough)
A session cookie is a small, temporary piece of data a website stores in your browser to remember who you are while…
COOKIES Germany’s Data Protection Chief Wants Better Cookie Banners — Not a Single Universal Consent Switch
Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) has released new recommendations on cookie banners, backed by survey data…