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If your SaaS imports personal data, list its sources. The 2026 GDPR transparency check asks your customers.
In 2026, 25 European data protection authorities are questioning recruiters, healthcare, finance, marketing and public…
7 Oct 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
In a high-risk data breach, GDPR says to tell everyone affected, not only your users
After a breach likely to put people at high risk, GDPR Article 34 requires telling every affected person, including peo…
27 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
Every contact you publish for GDPR data requests must be easy to use on its own
Spain's regulator fined Securitas Direct 100,000 euros for a paid 902 phone line on its camera signs, even though its p…
23 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
GDPR gives you one month to answer a deletion request, even if the data is already deleted
On 21 July 2026 the CNIL fined the IT consultancy EXTIA 300,000 euros over deletion requests, mostly because 166 people…
12 Sep 2026
Your app sends personal data outside the EU. Each destination needs its own transfer mechanism.
Making personal data available to a separate company outside the EEA is a transfer, and GDPR Chapter V requires a named…
11 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
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
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
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
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
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
Scraping the whole internet is the easy case. Your small, targeted scrape is not.
The EDPB's draft Guidelines 03/2026 cover web scraping for generative AI, and they reach the team that re-uses someone…
3 Aug 2026
Article 50 applies on 2 August 2026, and your model vendor cannot carry it for you
Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies from 2 August 2026. The delay you read about in June covered high-risk uses such as…
30 Jul 2026