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Breaking news just now in the privacy world out of California the first DROP Act penalty today August 11th has been made against a mid-west data broker with a $116,490 fine.

The banner is needed because I want to toggle settings depending on the website. A one size fits all model does not give agency and choice thats easy to adjust for a website visito…

Captain Compliance consent banners work but most do not and that is the issue but in time enforcement will make it that they will all work or else there will be consequences.

If you are like the thousands of other business owners who are getting hit with data privacy lawsuits and filing an insurance claim or going to your legal counsel to defend this yo…

Cookie stuffing and false attribution on top of a privacy scandal has gotten Phia being talked about but not for the right reasons....

Serial Litigant Vivek Shah has been sending out not hundreds but thousands of privacy violation demands to business owners all across the USA. Thankfully Captain Compliance has bee…

Two lawsuits. Two settlements. Seventeen and a half million dollars. And a media company that, by all external appearances, did exactly what hundreds of other digital publishers ar…

Paper Shields and Stolen Data: How a Fake Compliance Empire and a 40-Minute Supply Chain Attack Left 40,000 People Exposed — and Silicon Valley Facing a Legal Reckoning.

The spiral continues and the comments on X/Twitter are not going easy. Ycombinator the site this is being posted on has removed them from their site and kicked them out after it su…

Market leader in data privacy software is continuing the M&A trend with buyout talks under way.

Anthropic state sponsored attack used by operators who selected targets (technology corporations, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies) and provi…

This new robot is going to be awesome but the 1X NEO is going to have some privacy risks that need to be addressed.

On October 8, 2025, California enacted the “Opt Me Out Act” (AB 566), the first U.S. law requiring web browsers that operate in California to ship an easy-to-find, built-in setting…

France's CNIL fines Google €325M and Shein €150M for deceptive cookie consent practices under GDPR and ePrivacy rules. The penalties highlight ongoing issues with "dark patterns" i…