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A user ID that never changes keeps data personal under GDPR, even if hashed
Italy's data protection authority fined IQVIA 7 million euros for treating a patient database as anonymous when each pa…
11 Oct 2026
BBVA fined 5.5 million euros after an app opt-out never reached its marketing tool
Italy's data protection authority fined BBVA 5,508,000 euros after a customer switched off promotional notifications in…
10 Oct 2026
A software vendor can be fined under GDPR for a breach of its customers' data
Sweden's data protection authority fined Miljödata, an HR software vendor, 1.8 million kronor (about 160,000 euros) und…
9 Oct 2026
GDPR counts an AI agent reading personal data past its permissions as a breach
When an AI agent reaches personal data that it, or the user it acts for, is not authorised to reach, GDPR counts it as…
8 Oct 2026
Keep your cookie banner. The Digital Omnibus cookie reform is still a proposal.
The EU's Digital Omnibus proposes fewer cookie banners, but it is not law. In August 2026 Parliament had not voted and…
2 Oct 2026
An unsubscribe must stop marketing email from every tool you use, under EU and UK law
Under EU and UK law, every marketing email must offer a free, easy way out, and an opt-out has to take effect in every…
1 Oct 2026
The EU KIDS Act would regulate general AI chatbots, not customer-support bots
The EU KIDS Act, proposed on 17 September 2026 and not yet law, would regulate AI chatbots that minors can reach and th…
30 Sep 2026
A DSA illegal content report form should accept reports without a name or email
If people in the EU can upload, publish or share content through your product, the Digital Services Act requires a way…
29 Sep 2026
Email tracking pixels need consent in France, even if you are not based there
Open-tracking pixels need the recipient's consent in France, wherever the sender is based. Two uses are exempt, securin…
26 Sep 2026
The AI Act's AI literacy duty still applies to companies whose staff use ChatGPT
Article 4 of the EU AI Act still requires companies whose staff use AI tools such as ChatGPT to build their AI literacy…
25 Sep 2026
A GDPR fix counts for more if you made it before you heard from the regulator
The date you repaired a GDPR problem decides how much the repair is worth to you. One made before you learned an author…
22 Sep 2026
Your AI agent's tool list is the recipient list your privacy policy has to name
Giving a language model tools means the model decides at run time which companies receive personal data. GDPR Article 1…
21 Sep 2026
A connected device sold in the EU after 12 September 2026 must export its data to the user
For a connected device first sold in the EU after 12 September 2026, and the software it needs to work, the readings it…
19 Sep 2026
Fine-tuning rarely makes you a model's provider under the AI Act. The threshold is a third of the base model's compute.
The AI Act has two provider roles, and a fine-tune almost never moves the second one to you. Shipping an AI feature und…
18 Sep 2026
NIS2 gives you 24 hours to report a full cloud outage longer than 30 minutes
NIS2 gives you 24 hours from becoming aware of a significant incident to file a first report with your national cyber i…
13 Sep 2026
Most SaaS AI features are not high-risk under the AI Act. Hiring and credit tools need a check.
Most SaaS features are not high-risk under the EU AI Act. Two things make a system high-risk: it is, or is built into,…
10 Sep 2026
Uber fined 825 million euros for automatically banning drivers
On 21 August 2026 the Dutch data protection authority fined Uber 824,990,000 euros for switching off drivers' accounts…
8 Sep 2026
Swapping a vendor that touches customer data? Notify your customers before it goes live.
GDPR Article 28(2) requires your customer's written authorisation before a new or replacement vendor processes their da…
7 Sep 2026
Is legitimate interest enough for product analytics? Check what your tool stores on the device first.
Not on its own. Two rules apply to analytics, in order. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, the rule behind cookie…
6 Sep 2026
How long can you keep user data? Write down the period, then make something enforce it.
Set a period for each category of data you hold, publish it, and build something that enforces it. GDPR Article 5(1)(e)…
4 Sep 2026
Does your new feature need a DPIA? Decide before you ship, and write the answer down.
A data protection impact assessment (DPIA) is mandatory under GDPR Article 35 where processing is likely to result in a…
3 Sep 2026
Shipping every week? Five changes that put your privacy policy out of date.
Privacy policy drift is a document written once against a product that ships every week. Regulators name five changes u…
1 Sep 2026
Do you need a DPA with every vendor? Sort your list into three groups first.
No. GDPR Article 28(3) requires a written contract only where a vendor is your processor, meaning it handles the data o…
26 Aug 2026
An auditor keeps your security honest. Nothing keeps your privacy policy honest.
A SOC 2 audit examines the security controls you scoped into it, and platforms like Vanta collect the evidence for that…
24 Aug 2026
Adding AI to your app? Add these three disclosures to your privacy policy.
Calling an LLM API adds three things to what GDPR Article 13 makes you disclose: the model vendor becomes a recipient o…
19 Aug 2026
Enterprise buyers read your privacy policy before they read your pricing
Enterprise buyers are legally required to vet you: GDPR Article 28 lets a controller use only processors providing suff…
18 Aug 2026
Remove "we may" or "possible" from your privacy policy. EU regulators call for plain language.
Search your own privacy policy for "we may". I did it to 336 published policies from Product Hunt launches and 231 of t…
18 Aug 2026
Your Lovable app needs a privacy policy at the first sign-up.
If you built your product in Lovable, connect the GitHub repository Lovable already syncs to, then turn on direct-push…
17 Aug 2026
Product Hunt seriesThe most upvoted Product Hunt launches are no more compliant than the least
I scanned 458 products launched on Product Hunt over 30 days in 2026 and split them by upvotes. Across a range from 4 t…
11 Aug 2026
Product Hunt seriesOnly 45% of Product Hunt privacy policies name a legal basis
I scanned 458 products that launched on Product Hunt over 30 days in July and August 2026. 397 published a readable pri…
11 Aug 2026
Product Hunt series60% of Product Hunt sites load a foreign vendor their policy never mentions
I scanned 458 products launched on Product Hunt over 30 days, loading each from inside the EU and reading its legal pag…
11 Aug 2026
Product Hunt seriesOnly 17% of Product Hunt launches ask when they set tracking cookies
I scanned 458 products that launched on Product Hunt over 30 days in July and August 2026, loading each site from an EU…
11 Aug 2026
Two days from launch with no privacy policy. Twelve facts have to be true.
Before you publish a Privacy Policy, GDPR Article 13 requires twelve items. Two are close to boilerplate and one is you…
6 Aug 2026