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RSS feed →Ten Years of GDPR: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What Comes Next
Last week the EU General Data Protection Regulation became enforceable.
Scrapped White House AI Cybersecurity Order Shows the Next Fight Over Frontier Model Risk
A canceled White House executive order on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity is giving companies a preview of where AI regulation may be…
Pope Leo XIV Warns AI Must Protect Human Dignity, Workers, and the Common Good
Pope Leo XIV has placed artificial intelligence at the center of one of the most important moral and regulatory debates of the…
European Wax Center Settles Privacy Lawsuit: What the $1.5 Million Deal Means for Consumer Data Rights
European Wax Center, one of the United States’ largest franchised waxing salon chains, has agreed to a significant privacy settlement following allegations…
Fidelity Data Breach Settlement Shows Why Financial Privacy Risk Is No Longer Just a Cybersecurity Problem
Fidelity Investments is now dealing with the legal and regulatory fallout from a 2024 data breach that exposed sensitive customer and non-customer…
Trump Mobile Confirms Customer Data Exposure as Launch Scrutiny Deepens
Trump Mobile has confirmed that customer information tied to its phone preorder process was exposed online, creating a new privacy and cybersecurity…
Data Broker Location Data Rules Leave White House, CIA, and Other Sensitive Sites Exposed, Lawmakers Warn
Federal rules designed to stop foreign adversaries from buying sensitive U.S.
Louisiana Data Privacy Act
Louisiana is on the verge of becoming the latest state to pass data privacy legislation.
Captain Compliance Partners with EU Presence to Deliver End-to-End Privacy & Regulatory Automation
Partnership Announcement Two leading compliance platforms are joining forces to help global businesses move beyond checkbox compliance and into truly automated, operational…
The Bill Comes Due: Data Breach Liability, Vendor Contracts, and the Insurance Gap
In May 2006, a corporate attorney advising a mid-sized technology company on data privacy could fit the entirety of their working knowledge…
Enforcement Trends in European Data Protection: What the 2025 Numbers Really Tell Us
As we review the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) 2025 enforcement report alongside national authorities’ activity summaries, one thing is clear: the…
Belgium’s Privacy Watchdog Turns to Criminal Courts as GDPR Enforcement Enters a Harder Phase
Belgium’s data protection regulator is preparing to use a sharper instrument in its GDPR enforcement toolkit: the criminal courts.