The Network Advertising Initiative will require members to confirm they don’t have ties to countries of concern as defined under DOJ’s global data transfer rule, starting in 2026, NAI said Wednesday.

The IAPP on Tuesday unveiled a guide to Europe's digital law landscape for business, policy and tech audiences. The guide explains various digital regulations, changes being made, whom the measures affect and where the main risks and opportunities lie. Among other things, it maps the intersection of the GDPR with other laws, such as the AI Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act and Data Governance Act.

Ketch announced an age-gating and video-consent product for addressing kids’ privacy law compliance and wiretapping litigation. The compliance vendor said its release of “dynamic consent” tools responds to a growing number of age-appropriate design code and other age-verification laws in the states, as well as increasing litigation against businesses from plaintiffs’ attorneys under laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.

A wave of letters from California residents seeking information about what personal data was disclosed to third parties via a 2003 law could be a trap for businesses receiving the request, Troutman attorneys warned Monday.

While consent is a critical component of digital privacy, it's also "one of the most misunderstood," Scott Loughlin, a Hogan Lovells data protection lawyer, said in a video the firm posted Thursday.

Marketers mustn’t take a reactive attitude to privacy compliance with enforcement heating up, said Lucas Long, InfoTrust head of global privacy, on a Thursday webinar hosted by the vendor Osano.

YouTube content creator MrBeast should update data collection practices to comply with COPPA, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended Thursday.

Among the first steps toward compliance is determining what privacy laws and regulations apply to your organization, said Downs Rachlin lawyers in a blog post Wednesday. But it's "no easy task," said Matthew Borick and Jennifer Drake: Start with a careful assessment of "your data collection practices" and "don’t assume you’re exempt."

While companies often understand they risk incurring regulatory fines when they ignore data privacy, many underestimate the real cost of this approach, which includes the potential for lawsuits and class actions, said Bricker Graydon lawyer Nancy Magoteaux in a blog post Tuesday.

Conducting a data inventory is growing in importance from a best practice to almost a requirement for organizations complying with state privacy laws, said Colleen Yushchak of consultant Ankura on a webinar Wednesday co-hosted by attorneys from Squire Patton.