Week in Review: The Mechanism That Was Built to Fail
TikTok paid $400 million. The FTC named surveillance pricing. Santa Barbara swapped one camera vendor for another. A data broker got fined for making ...
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€7.1 Billion, 172 Countries, and a Norwegian Gym: The Global Privacy Enforcement Scoreboard, Late August 2026
Cumulative GDPR fines have passed €7.1 billion. Seventy-nine percent of the world's countries now have a data protection law. And in the same fortnigh...
India's Privacy Law Gets Teeth on 13 November — And 1.4 Billion People's Data Is About to Change Hands Differently
The Data Protection Board of India can start levying penalties on 13 November 2026. Full compliance follows on 13 May 2027. Maximum penalty: ₹250 cror...
144 Countries Have Data Protection Laws — And Privacy Is Still Losing. A Global Mid-Year Scoreboard
More than 144 countries now have data protection laws in force. Twenty-three US states have comprehensive privacy statutes. GDPR turned ten in May. By...
Vietnam Just Enacted Its First National Data Protection Law — Southeast Asia's Privacy Landscape Is Changing Fast
Vietnam has enacted its first comprehensive national data protection law, joining a wave of privacy legislation sweeping Southeast Asia. The law intro...