Policy & Regulation
Pennsylvania SB 603 Age Verification Clears Senate Committee
Pennsylvania SB 603 age verification has taken a step forward. The state's Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the bill, which would require age checks on commercial websites where more than one-t...
Colombia SIC Data Protection Fines Reach 2,000 Monthly Wages
Colombia's data protection regulator, the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC), has the power to hit organizations with serious penalties when they mishandle personal data. Colombia SIC data...
Rand Paul Blocks KOSA Vote Push by Blumenthal and Blackburn
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stopped a fast-track attempt to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The episode matters to privacy-minded readers because it decided whether the bill w...
GDPR Fines and Penalties 2026: Tiers, Fault and Uber's €825M
GDPR fines and penalties 2026 are a bigger topic than the headline maximums suggest. A new guide from Venvera walks through the two fine tiers, whose turnover counts, why fault is now required, how th...
Uber GDPR Automated Decisions Fine: €824.99M Dutch Ruling
On August 21, 2026, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the Dutch DPA) announced that it had fined Uber €824,990,000 for infringing the EU General Data Protection Regulation's prohibition on certain ...
GDPR vs CCPA vs DPDPA: Delaware, EU and California Rights
If you are trying to make sense of GDPR vs CCPA vs DPDPA, the first hurdle is the alphabet soup. In this comparison, GDPR is the European Union's broad privacy regime, CCPA is California's consumer pr...
Kids Online Safety Act After Meta Settlement: CT Mom's Push
Connecticut will receive money from a landmark settlement with Meta, but for some advocates the payout is not the end of the story. A Connecticut mother and other supporters are urging Congress to mov...
SC Asks Centre to Frame Rules for 18+ Social Media Accounts
India's Supreme Court has asked the Centre to examine a statutory framework that would require social media users to be 18 or older to create an account. The request, reported by Storyboard18, puts th...
Age Verification Laws Explained: 25 States and Court Fights
Age verification laws are spreading across the United States, and they are changing what it takes to open certain websites. This age verification laws explained guide covers what the bills ask of plat...
EU Regulators Eye More Consistent GDPR Fines
One of the longest-running criticisms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is that enforcement has never been applied evenly. A company handling personal data in one EU member state could ...