Masters of Privacy · 2026-05-17 · 33 min
We’re back with a Newsroom update. We will cover four of our usual five blocks: ePrivacy & regulatory updates; MarTech & AdTech; AI, competition and digital markets; and the future of media. This season’s update includes: * Age-verification fines (insufficient controls, too much data collection) in the UK and Spain, EDPB age-verification guidelines, California’s upcoming age-verification requirements * Enforcement actions in the US (public, private) * Guidelines for email tracking pixels in France and Italy * New ICO guidelines for storage and access technologies (exceptions for analytics, A/B testing, etc.) * Social Media bans across the world and what is failing * Data collection in the context of new media networks and AI labs. As announced - Firmas.io : a mobile application to complement the TODO.LAW ecosystem (contract management, signatures, credentials). All references and links (plus some bonus materials) can be found in a separate blog post available to paid Masters of Privacy subscribers on our website’s Newsroom section (Newsroom Notes: Spring 2026). Our usual disclaimer: the voice that joins Sergio today is a text-to-speech output generated with Eleven Labs.
Eduardo Ustaran: the status of privacy in 2026, UK-EU divergence on automated decisions74 / 100
Theodore Christakis: chatbot privacy dreams and the health AI agent rush
Malcolm Bain: copyright protection of AI-generated works and protection of copyrighted works from AI training
John Pavolotsky: California legal updates, Colorado AI reset, data breach clauses revisited
Tim Turner: The DPO Daily Challenge, recent updates to the UK legal framework 