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DATA Mozilla Tested Six Period Tracker Apps. Only One Earned a Perfect Privacy Score
Period-tracking applications ask users to record some of the most intimate information a technology company can collect.
New Jersey’s A5328: The Data Broker Law That Comes for Companies With Direct Consumer Relationships
Being framed as the most dangerous data broker law for business owners who do not consider themselves data brokers yet will share…
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Privacy Teams: What to Prioritize Before the 2030 Deprecation Deadline
Somewhere right now, an intelligence service or criminal syndicate is exfiltrating encrypted data it cannot read.
DATA New Jersey Data Broker Law: The Most Expensive Data Broker Law in America and How to Comply
New Jersey just created the most expensive data broker law in America.
No, the Supreme Court Did Not Just Kill the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29, 2026 decision in Trump v. Slaughter — which struck down the for-cause removal…
UK DUAA Complaints Requirements Are Now in Force
The U.K.’s Data (Use and Access) Act has officially moved another privacy compliance obligation from best practice to legal requirement.
OAIC Finds Healthcare Firms Misused Tracking Pixels, Exposed Sensitive Health Data
Australia’s privacy regulator has drawn a hard line around healthcare website tracking.
DATA Data Embassies vs. Data Corridors: A Compliance Officer’s Guide to the Cross-Border Data Transfer Framework
Data embassies are one of the most discussed — and most misunderstood — concepts in global data governance.
DATA Canada’s Bill C-36 Overhauls Private-Sector Privacy Law
New Enforcement Agency, GDPR-Scale Penalties, and Obligations That Will Reshape How Organizations Handle Personal Data Canada has introduced the most significant overhaul…
Anonymization Is Not a Safe Harbor Anymore: AI Has Changed the Math on De-Identified Data
For decades, anonymization functioned as the foundational legal assumption of the data economy.
DATA Privacy Risk Scanning Tools Comparison
Privacy risk scanning has become a distinct software and much welcomed category recently, driven by the same forces reshaping the broader privacy…
DATA ClassAction.org Data Protection Lawsuit List
There is a list of companies that are being sued in class actions that the website classaction.org publicly posts around issues for…