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GDPR

EU regulation effective 2018 governing personal data processing, granting individuals rights like erasure and access, with global compliance obligations.

Known aliases

  • DSGVO
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation
  • GDPR
  • GDPR Article 17
  • GDPR Article 30
  • General Data Protection Regulation
  • RGPD
  • right to be forgotten
  • right to erasure

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Italy's Garante fines BBVA €5.5M over an opt-out its CRM sender never received

Italy's Garante fined BBVA €5,508,000 after a failed sync kept one customer's marketing opt-out from the CRM unit that sent promotions for seven months. The EDPB published a €16.7M Wind Tre fine three days later.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence58
buildConfirmed2 publishers

Connected-product makers now have 24 hours to report exploited flaws under the EU Cyber Resilience Act

EU Cyber Resilience Act rules have required connected-product makers to report exploited flaws through ENISA within 24 hours since 11 September 2026. One incident can also start DORA, NIS2 and GDPR clocks, so runbooks need a triage step that splits into parallel filings.

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence70
productOne report1 publisher

Automation Anywhere buys Boost.ai to add customer-facing voice AI to its back-office automation

Automation Anywhere has agreed to buy conversational voice AI firm Boost.ai, which has handled more than 150 million automated conversations. The purchase from Nordic Capital takes the automation vendor into regulated-industry customer work in Europe, where Boost.ai's base is concentrated.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption48
Hype gap+30
Incentives62
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Italy's privacy regulator fines IQVIA 7 million euros over re-identifiable patient codes

Italy's privacy regulator fined IQVIA 7 million euros after finding coded records on about one million patients could be traced back to individuals. Teams that pool health records under one persistent patient key now have a regulator's written reasoning for why removing names fell short.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives30
Confidence64
investOne report1 publisher

Archer turns written regulations into Amazon Bedrock guardrails that block prompts before inference

Archer's Evolv AI Compliance turns rules from a 22-million-document library into Amazon Bedrock guardrails that check each prompt before a model answers. Archer is betting that risk and compliance teams will pay to enforce their rules at the moment a prompt reaches a model, on top of controlling who can log in.

Publishers:fintech.global

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives75
Confidence35
securityConfirmed5 publishers

Manufacturers selling into the EU now owe ENISA a 24-hour warning on exploited flaws

The Cyber Resilience Act's vulnerability reporting duties are already in force, well before the December 2027 date that governs most of the regulation, and they sit alongside five other disclosure regimes whose clocks start differently.

Publishers:commission.europa.eu csoonline.com dev.to scworld.com webflow.sysdig.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 36%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
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Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence72
buildOne report1 publisher

A citation graph lets a legal RAG agent reach the penalty for breaking Section 26

A developer's GraphRAG build turns Thailand's 96-section PDPA into a 190-node graph so an agent can walk from Section 26 to the fines that cite it. The published part argues the vector-search gap from vocabulary and reports no measured recall figures.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives25
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare brings publicly built EuroLLM and Switzerland's Apertus to Workers AI

Cloudflare is adding EuroLLM, which covers all 24 official EU languages, and Switzerland's fully open Apertus model to Workers AI. Both come from public universities and research institutions, so teams with sovereignty requirements now have hosted models built outside the frontier labs.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption12
Hype gap+25
Incentives80
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

BH Consulting's BH Haven lets AI draft SME assessments that consultants must approve

BH Consulting launched BH Haven, a four-tier SME service in which a proprietary AI tool drafts findings and consultants approve them. CEO Brian Honan said using AI internally does not move the firm's contractual responsibility for a missed gap onto the software.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives70
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

Ireland's DPC median of 6.2 years outlasts the AI Act's five-year window to fine

Ireland's DPC takes a median 6.2 years to decide a cross-border GDPR case, a LessWrong analysis finds. The AI Act gives the Commission five years from a violation to fine, and it requires the same investigation and response steps that take up most of the Irish cases.

Publishers:lesswrong.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
securityConfirmed5 publishers

TikTok's $400M settlement puts a price on the parental deletion request nobody actioned

The DoJ split the payment, holding a quarter of it against the removal of a legacy consent decree, and credited TikTok's later fixes without discounting the bill for the earlier ones.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Reality

Evidence66
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence70
productConfirmed3 publishers

The 825 million euro lesson: an automated suspension that stops earnings needs a human and an appeal

The Dutch regulator's fine against Uber turns the rules on automated decisions into a build order: meaningful review before the action lands, and a contest route the driver can actually find.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 45%
Investor
Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence65
productConfirmed3 publishers

Plaud's $249.99 earbuds put a five-meter microphone on the meeting table

The charging case does the real listening, and it uploads to the cloud for transcription. That makes the September ship date a consent-policy deadline for whoever owns acceptable use, not a gadget review.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
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Builder 37%
Operator
Operator 41%
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Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence55
securityConfirmed5 publishers

Grindr pays £26m over claims two analytics providers received users' HIV status

More than 11,000 UK claimants, two named analytics providers and no admission of liability have produced a hard figure for what one app's pre-2020 profile data was worth, payable in two £13m tranches.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 51%
Investor
Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence74
buildOne report1 publisher

Each background job retry gets its own Postgres row in a design built around tenant incident queries

Three separate IDs and one Postgres row per retry let an investigator list every attempt for a tenant in order, according to a dev.to design. Adopting it means carrying an operation ID into every enqueue call, and its sample redactor lets bearer tokens through.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
investConfirmed5 publishers

Ireland prices Google's location-data window at about 650,000 euros a day

The Data Protection Commission's EUR 403m penalty, its fourth-largest under GDPR, covers 620 days of location processing that ended in February 2020. Against Alphabet's reported revenue that is about 0.15 percent.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 19%
Operator
Operator 49%
Investor
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Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives50
Confidence75
securityConfirmed12 publishers

The DPC gave Google six months to fix the location processing it fined 403 million euros

Ireland's Data Protection Commission found lawfulness, fairness and retention failures in Web & App Activity and Location History, and transparency failures in all three location features it examined. One of them runs for Android users who never signed in.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
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Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 53%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives40
Confidence75
productOne report1 publisher

Flock answered Senate scrutiny of plate readers with a dropdown menu and a case number field

Republicans and Democrats on the Senate crime subcommittee both objected that plate reader vendors leave abuse detection to the police departments buying the cameras, and the four invited chief executives did not appear.

Publishers:nextgov.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption61
Hype gap+28
Incentives74
Confidence56
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Phenomenon Studio's co-founder excludes navigation and transaction buttons from adaptation

Writing for the Forbes Tech Council, Phenomenon Studio co-founder Polina says fintech apps can adapt insights and notifications while navigation, balance placement and transaction buttons stay fixed. Her readiness test starts at a thousand monthly active users.

Publishers:forbes.com

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives68
Confidence55

Earlier coverage

  1. LG's rebuttal shrinks the TV spying story to a wake-word question

    Product · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  2. Kiteworks buys Bonfy.AI to move data classification into the send path

    Security · September 11, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  3. Stadtwerke Landsberg names eight service lines that stayed up while its office IT was encrypted

    Security · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  4. Berlin published the staffing plan for refusing a ransom

    Product · September 6, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  5. The AI Act turns your hosting choice into an audit artifact

    Build · September 2, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  6. The low bid prices one fifth of the software

    Leadership · August 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher