Belgian court hands IAB Europe a major TCF win: IAB Europe's appeal succeeds as Belgian Market Court annuls action plan validation, requiring narrower scope reflecting limited joint controllership role. https://ppc.land/belgian-court-hands-iab-europe-a-major-tcf-win/ #IABEurope #TCF #BelgianCourt #DigitalMarketing #PrivacyRegulations

Data governance emerges as critical role for programmatic professionals: Agencies face talent gaps as privacy regulations and AI create demand for specialists understanding campaign execution and data quality frameworks. https://ppc.land/data-governance-emerges-as-critical-role-for-programmatic-professionals/ #DataGovernance #ProgrammaticMarketing #PrivacyRegulations #AIMarketing #DigitalMarketing

Google AdMob launches consent syncing for apps using European CMP: AdMob introduces cross-app consent syncing for European regulations on November 10, eliminating redundant privacy prompts across multiple applications. https://ppc.land/google-admob-launches-consent-syncing-for-apps-using-european-cmp/ #GoogleAdMob #AdTech #PrivacyRegulations #CMP #ConsentSyncing

Ecuador establishes framework for legitimate interest data processing: Ecuador's data protection superintendent issues comprehensive regulations on November 7 requiring documented balancing tests before companies can process personal data based on legitimate interest. https://ppc.land/ecuador-establishes-framework-for-legitimate-interest-data-processing/ #Ecuador #DataProtection #LegitimateInterest #PrivacyRegulations #PersonalData

Microsoft Clarity enforces final cookie consent deadline starting now: Microsoft Clarity begins final enforcement of cookie consent requirements for European traffic on October 31, 2025, affecting analytics features. https://ppc.land/microsoft-clarity-enforces-final-cookie-consent-deadline-starting-now/ #MicrosoftClarity #CookieConsent #PrivacyRegulations #DigitalMarketing #Analytics

EU court dismisses challenge to US data privacy framework in Latombe case: European General Court rejects French politician's attempt to annul 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework, upholding adequacy decision for transatlantic data transfers despite independence concerns. https://ppc.land/eu-court-dismisses-challenge-to-us-data-privacy-framework-in-latombe-case/ #DataPrivacy #EUCourt #USPrivacy #TransatlanticData #PrivacyRegulations

Microsoft Clarity enforces cookie consent requirements across Europe: Microsoft mandates consent signals for Clarity users in EEA, UK, and Switzerland starting October 31, 2025, affecting session recordings and analytics features. https://ppc.land/microsoft-clarity-enforces-cookie-consent-requirements-across-europe/ #MicrosoftClarity #CookieConsent #PrivacyRegulations #DataProtection #DigitalAnalytics

Data governance transforms chaos into clarity. How are you building trust with smart data practices in your organization? #DataGovernance #Compliance #PrivacyRegulations #RegulatoryCompliance #DAMA #COBIT #NIST #DataQuality #EthicalDataManagement #TrustAndTransparency #KPIs #ContinuousImprovement #DataStewardship
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Microsoft gets EU hall pass despite admitting it can't protect European data: Regulators declare victory over contractual band-aids while Cloud Act elephant remains in room. https://ppc.land/microsoft-gets-eu-hall-pass-despite-admitting-it-cant-protect-european-data/ #Microsoft #EULaw #DataProtection #CloudComputing #PrivacyRegulations

ICYMI: UK data regulator hits 23andMe with £2.31 million fine for genetic breach: ICO fines genetic testing firm £2.31M after credential stuffing attack exposed 155,592 UK customers' DNA data over 5 months. https://ppc.land/uk-data-regulator-hits-23andme-with-2-31-million-fine-for-genetic-breach/ #DataPrivacy #GeneticTesting #23andMe #DataBreach #PrivacyRegulations

🍪🔒 Ah, the EU—where privacy coins meet their tragicomic demise! By 2027, they'll make sure your crypto is as anonymous as a celebrity on a reality TV show. 😂🎭 Meanwhile, Europe continues its love affair with JavaScript pop-ups—because, clearly, that’s where the real security is. 🙄🔐
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Microsoft Commits to Enhanced Data Protection for Europeans Amid Trump’s Policies https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/microsoft-commits-to-enhanced-data.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Microsoft #DataProtection #PrivacyRegulations #EUDatabase #GDPR

@Catawu @briankrebs I’m not really interested in their frame of reference or what they think about the people impacted. That’s not because I don’t care, but because I think it's irrelevant to the deeper underlying issues.

I’m actually more interested to what extent this situation may violate #HIPAA and other #patientprivacy laws. Part of the functional challenge in what is currently going on at the federal level is that many privacy and #healthcare safeguards such as HIPAA are a complex mixture of laws passed by Congress and regulations defined by the executive branch to implement those laws.

I am not a lawyer, but I do deal with #privacyregulations and #regulatorycompliance issues professionally. To the extent that the administration is arguing that they have constitutional authority to make changes to the implementations developed and overseen by the executive branch itself, the extent of what is being done seems unprecedented but may not be illegal per se. I am not qualified to make that determination, but I think it's the foundational question that needs to be asked.

On the other hand, the parts of HIPAA and other federally-enacted laws regarding #healthcare and privacy are in fact laws established within our country’s constitutional framework. The executive branch can’t simply wish clearly-established laws into the cornfield. Unfortunately, many laws leave a great deal of the implementation details—whether unintentionally or through deliberate delegation—to the executive branch, the states, or various regulatory agencies. In turn, many of those regulators also operate to one extent or another under the executive branch, and that further complicates the picture.

Many federal laws leave a great deal of wiggle room for interpretation to the executive and judicial branches whether not by design, but congressionally-enacted laws and protections provided by the Constitution itself cannot simply be ignored. While there's definitely a difference, separating a "law" from the "regulations" that implement that law isn't necessarily a simple exercise.

The real challenge is that our republic was designed as a Venn diagram of overlapping roles, responsibilities, and authority that were meant to operate in a state of carefully-balanced tension. The republic's framework has never been tested this broadly within my lifetime, if ever. Even though how our three branches of government should work is material covered in any decent highschool civics class, the complexity of statutory vs. regulatory authority requires legal and Constitutional scholarship that is more than the average citizen can bring to bear on the matter. I'd like to think I understand these issues better than most—and I certainly have my own personal and professional instincts about what's right and wrong—but I wouldn't dream of claiming to understand all the nuances involved.

Professionally, I am taking a deliberately apolitical approach to what is a very legitimate set of questions about constitutional authority. Likewise, my apolitical but professional experience tells me that there is entirely too much gray area around the constitutional and legal topics to determine with certainty what is legal as opposed to what is moral or ethical. In my professional experience, what is right and what is lawful aren't always the same.

Unless society as a whole is willing to revisit some of the underlying assumptions collectively made over the past several hundred years about the differences between legislative laws and the administrative regulations that implement them, this problem is unlikely to go away anytime soon. In fact, it is likely to spread to other areas with similar gray areas. As an argument by analogy, the current legal mess around #copyright and #LLM training may be similar in terms of being pure sophistry where the term "fair use" is clearly being used in an intellectually dishonest way, but apparently it's far enough into the gray to pass legal muster right now. Decades or centuries of legislative layering has led to a legal framework that never envisioned modern realities. Revisiting and revising centuries of legal accretion would require a strong moral compass, a great deal of political courage, and in-depth analysis by legal and constitutional scholars (among others) in order to address the very real institutional unraveling we're observing.

Sadly, in a society that frequently classifies expertise as “elitism" such a brutally honest conversation is unlikely to happen soon. A broad reconsideration of how our republic was designed to function and a hard look at how it actually functions would require high levels of both personal and political courage. It's even less likely to be rapidly prioritized without sufficiently clear political self-interest from a majority of those with the remaining authority to materially affect the outcome.

What I’ve said may strike some as political opinion rather than strictly analytical observation. However, my statements are deliberately based on well-established sociological and psychological norms rather than current politics. I feel confident in asserting that the likelihood of Congress or the Supreme Court—much less the general public—addressing these things effectively in the near term is essentially zero. For any elected or appointed official acting alone, the risk of asserting constitutional prerogatives vastly exceeds both the collective will of their respective institutions and the already-ceded institutional powers required to do so effectively.

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ICYMI: European trade groups defend consent or pay models in feedback to privacy regulators: Digital advertising associations submit detailed feedback on "consent or pay" models to EU privacy board, highlighting legal and economic factors https://ppc.land/european-trade-groups-defend-consent-or-pay-models-in-feedback-to-privacy-regulators/ #DigitalMarketing #PrivacyRegulations #Advertising #ConsentModel #EULaw

ICYMI: European trade groups defend consent or pay models in feedback to privacy regulators: Digital advertising associations submit detailed feedback on "consent or pay" models to EU privacy board, highlighting legal and economic factors https://ppc.land/european-trade-groups-defend-consent-or-pay-models-in-feedback-to-privacy-regulators/ #PrivacyRegulations #DigitalAdvertising #ConsentOrPay #EULaw #TradeGroups

How Data Privacy Regulations Affect Businesses Today?
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Want to know the best-kept "secret" in #cybersecurity for avoiding a potential #databreach or putting #customerdata in harm's way? Every experienced #CIO and #CISO already knows it by heart because it's super simple: "Don't collect unnecessary data in the first place!"

Even if a product actually needs the data for legitimate reasons from the customers' point of view, they should still be informed of the alleged necessity first, and then asked for permission to collect and use the data. That ensures that customers have the opportunity to evaluate the sensitivity of the data involved, and determine for themselves what the the potential risks and rewards of sharing it might be. Collecting the data first and then expecting customers to believe that a vendor can or will honor a future opt-out request is just silly, especially in the modern age of giant data lakes, massive online redundancy, 100+ year shelf-lives for petabytes of off-site storage media, and sub-sub-sub data processors.

This is an extremely tone-deaf approach by #Salesforce to the current regulatory issues around mass data collection whether or not it's #AI_ML related. It is also unlikely that this policy complies with EU #privacyregulations or #AIgovernance laws. I'm neither a lawyer nor a party to any associated DPAs or NDAs related to this particular service, but if you're responsible for vendor selection, #regulatorycompliance, or #dataprivacy at your organization you need to go screenshot this before Salesforce tries to walk it back and pretend it never happened—leaving you holding the bag when your customers' data is inevitably exposed, of course.

https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000384050&type=1

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