The Privacy Corner
Join Privado.ai each week as he navigates the ever-changing landscape of data breaches, surveillance, and individual rights, offering expert insights and actionable advice to help you take control of your digital footprint. Join him for lively discussions, in-depth interviews, and practical tips to protect your privacy in today's connected world.
Episodes
📢 In Privacy News This Week:
🔹 Healthline fined $1.55M under CCPA – for failing to honor opt-outs, misconfigured cookie banners, and sharing sensitive health data without proper contracts or purpose limitation.
🔹 NY cracks down on teen tracking – AG guidance confirms NY Child Data Protection Act bans behavioral ads unless strictly necessary; “necessary” excludes marketing and profiling.
🔹 Microsoft faces EU-wide lega...
In this episode of the Privacy Tech Spotlight series by Masters of Privacy, Vaibhav Antil, Co-Founder & CEO of Privado.ai, explores the shift from trust-based compliance to evidence-based privacy programs.
Vaibhav breaks down how tools like code scanning, built-in alerts, and server-side auditing help DPOs and legal teams gain real-time visibility into data flows—bridging the gap between privacy policies and engine...
📢 Privacy Corner Newsletter: June 26, 2025
🔹 UK Raises Cookie Fines and Relaxes Some Consent Rules – The UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Act updates cookie consent exemptions and raises PECR penalties to £17.5M or 4% of global revenue.
🔹 Norway Penalizes Non-Consensual Tracking of Minors – The Norwegian DPA fined a public children’s support site and reprimanded five others for illegally sharing personal data...
📢 Privacy Corner Newsletter: June 6, 2025
🔹 California tweaks CIPA lawsuits but the retroactive fix is gone
The Senate passed SB 690 to limit wiretapping claims tied to adtech by aligning CIPA with the CCPA — but removed the retroactive clause, meaning older lawsuits can still proceed.
🔹 German court says 'Accept & Close' banners aren’t enough
A Hannover court ruled cookie banners must allow true choice a...
In this episode of the Website Privacy Series, Ali Jessani, Counsel at WilmerHale, joins Privado.ai CEO Vaibhav Antil to unpack the biggest privacy risks facing U.S. websites in 2025.
From CCPA enforcement in California to biometric settlements in Texas, this session breaks down where companies are getting it wrong and what you can do to avoid fines and lawsuits.
You'll learn:
- What’s triggering class actio...
📢 Privacy Corner Newsletter: May 22, 2025
🔹 Meta’s AI Training Faces Legal Pushback –
Noyb challenges Meta’s use of public posts for AI under “legitimate interests,” citing GDPR violations, lack of transparency, and risks to data subject rights.
🔹 OpenAI Ordered to Retain Chat Logs –
A U.S. judge directs OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT output, overriding privacy settings and regulations amid a copyright case...
📢 Privacy Corner Newsletter: May 8, 2025
🔹 Meta’s Court Challenge Rejected – The EU’s General Court dismissed Meta’s attempt to annul the EDPB’s 'consent or pay' opinion, stating it lacks binding legal effect. Meta also failed in its claim for compensation.
🔹 Todd Snyder Fined $345K Under CCPA – A broken cookie consent mechanism and excessive ID verification led the California Privacy Protection Agency to f...
📢 Privacy Corner Newsletter: April 24, 2025
🔹 EU Fines Meta & Apple Under DMA –
The European Commission hits Meta with a €200M fine and Apple with €500M for violating the Digital Markets Act. This challenges the future of “consent-or-pay” models across Europe.
🔹 UK Law Firm Fined Over Ransomware Handling –
ICO fines a UK law firm £60,000 for poor response to a ransomware incident. The breach left sensiti...
Privacy engineering is a growing field that requires a blend of regulatory knowledge and technical skills. Privacy engineers are tasked with collaborating across privacy and engineering teams to ensure compliance while maintaining technical excellence.
In this panel, experienced privacy engineers share how they built their expertise, overcame organizational challenges, and delivered tangible value across both...
Privacy fines in adtech are skyrocketing, with regulators targeting non-compliant data sharing between marketers and partners. Many businesses still rely on outdated tracking methods, exposing them to legal and financial risks.
This panel shares the latest enforcement trends, the biggest compliance gaps in marketing data practices, and how privacy teams can enforce technical controls to mitigate risks. Learn ...
Privacy Corner Newsletter: April 10, 2025
🔹 EU Advocate General Backs Conditional Consent –
A new opinion from the EU’s top legal advisor says offering a newsletter in exchange for personal data can be lawful, as long as users are informed and the service is genuinely optional.
🔹 CCPA Narrows Scope of ADMT Rules –
California’s privacy regulator has clarified that targeted advertising does not count as automated decision...
▶ UK ICO Investigates TikTok, Reddit & Imgur –
The UK’s privacy regulator is investigating TikTok’s content recommendations for minors and Reddit and Imgur’s age verification measures, signaling a crackdown on children’s data protection.
▶ CJEU Clarifies ‘Meaningful Information’ in AI Decisions –
The EU’s top court ruled that companies using automated decision-making must provide clear...
As AI and LLMs become deeply embedded in products, privacy leaders must move fast to address privacy, security, and ethical risks.
In this episode, industry experts share their hands-on strategies, lessons learned, and best practices for:
✅ Building AI governance frameworks that scale
✅ Managing compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and emerging regulations
✅ Addressing security risks in AI-driven products
✅ Navi...
Leading privacy experts discuss why trust-based compliance is no longer enough and how product-driven privacy is the key to scalable compliance.
Here's what the Keynote covers:
🔹 Why teams can no longer rely on trust-based privacy mechanisms
🔹 How product privacy management enables evidence-based privacy and compliance at scale
🔹 Lessons from HP & Grindr on moving to evidence-based privacy
🔹 Privado....
Privacy Corner Newsletter: February 13, 2025
🔹 EU’s AI Act Guidelines Clarify Compliance Risks –
The European Commission releases two sets of AI Act guidelines, breaking down the definition of AI systems and outlining nine prohibited AI practices, including emotional manipulation and biometric categorization.
🔹 UK’s Secret Demand for Apple’s Encrypted Data –
The UK government issues a confidential ...
Privacy Corner Newsletter: Jan 30, 2025
By Robert Bateman and Privado.ai
In this edition:
▶ UK Court Ruling: Invalid Consent in Gambling Case
A UK gambling firm unlawfully tracked users for marketing, despite their supposed consent. The court ruled that consent must be informed, freely given, and valid, emphasizing the importance of assessing users’ ability to provide meaningful agreement—especially in vulnerabl...
Privacy Corner Newsletter: Jan 16, 2025
In this edition:
▶ European Commission must pay damages for Facebook Login feature violation
▶ Texas sues Allstate under new privacy law for illegal data collection
▶ CJEU rules gender data collection not lawful for personalization under ‘contract’ basis
Privacy Corner Newsletter: January 2, 2025
In this edition:
▶ OpenAI faces penalties for GDPR breaches linked to ChatGPT, including transparency failures and inadequate age verification.
▶ California Privacy Protection Agency settles with two more data brokers
PayDae and The Data Group fined for failing to register under California’s Delete Act, with further enforcement anticipated.
...
Privacy Corner Newsletter: December 19, 2024
In this edition:
The Irish DPA fines Meta €251 million over a 2018 data breach, the Dutch DPA fines Netflix €4.75 million for transparency failings, and the French DPA cracks down on non-compliant cookie banners.
▶ Irish DPA fines Meta €251 million over 2018 data breach
The fine follows a breach affecting 29 million Facebook accounts. The DPC found violations of ...
Privacy Corner Newsletter: Dec 5, 2024
In this edition:
The FTC proposes orders targeting sensitive data misuse, Australia bans kids from social media, and noyb gains new powers for collective GDPR actions.
▶ FTC targets sensitive location data misuse in proposed orders:
Gravy Analytics and Mobilewalla face sanctions for selling sensitive location data, including segments like “New Parents” and “LGBTQ+ Community.”
▶ A...
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