Privacy
IAB Tech Lab Allows Unhashed Emails Under Controls: No File Label Fits Them
IAB Tech Lab’s final ECAPI data clean room guidelines keep hashing or encryption as the default for fields the standard…
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Privacy
Discord to Show Public Chats From Discoverable Servers on the Web: Members’ Setting Covers Messages, Not AI Channel Summaries
Discord announced on October 27 that every Discoverable Server will have a public Server Web Page from November 16, 2026,…
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Italy’s Email Tracking-Pixel Rules Take Effect October 29: Open-Rate Counts Skip Consent Only if Anonymised
Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, says companies, platforms and newsletters must bring their notices, consents and revocation tools into…
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Safari 27.2 Fixes a 7-Day Cookie Cap Bug on CNAMEd Sites; Its Notes Skip The Trade Desk
Safari 27.2, released on October 26, fixes cookies set by a top-level navigation’s own response being “capped to a seven-day…
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Google’s Gmail Ad Exception Is in Its EU Privacy Policy Too: Search’s Page for Connecting Apps Lists No EU Country
Google’s privacy policy, effective October 16, still says it does not show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail…
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Conseil d’État Rejects Orange’s Appeal: A Cookie Read After Withdrawal Is the Breach
France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, rejected Orange’s appeal on 16 October in decision n° 501268, so the Orange…
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Texas Settles With Temu: Its App Audit Checks Data Collection Against Temu’s Own Privacy Notice
On October 16 the Texas Attorney General published an Agreed Final Judgment settling the state’s suit against Temu (PDD Holdings…
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Citizen Lab Links a TCF Ad Vendor to Spyware Delivery: IAB Europe Removed Vendor 778
Citizen Lab says an ad vendor listed in IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework served the ads that delivered zero-click…
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Norway Fines Xandr NOK 92 Million Over Grindr Data: Two Contract Clauses Did Not Shift Responsibility
Norway’s data protection authority, Datatilsynet, has fined Xandr, the ad tech company that is now part of Microsoft, NOK 92…
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Safari on iOS 27 Blocks The Trade Desk: Apple Points to a 27.2 Beta, Not a Public Blocklist
The Safari iOS 27 block on The Trade Desk’s ad domain, adsrvr.org, has a short public primary record: a WebKit…