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As companies grapple with complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act, they will need to decide whether the internet protocol addresses they collect from consumers are considered “personal information” and thus within the scope of this new law. It will not be easy. The CCPA defines “personal information” to include…

This is a hotly debated question that has different answers in different legal jurisdictions. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and EU case law, IP addresses (both static and dynamic) are considered personal data, while definitions of personal information in the U.S. Privacy Act and many state privacy laws…

Image Credits: Vinicius Massuela/EyeEm / Getty Images You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data protection law. That’s the unambiguous message from the…

Anyone who’s ever shopped online knows that brands tend to retarget consumers with ads after they’ve searched or shopped for something. It’s a practice called behavioral targeting. But privacy laws and browser restrictions are promising to limit it. Europe’s GDPR privacy law, new privacy laws emerging in the US, and stricter…

In the 1990s, web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer competed bitterly to offer the snazziest new features and attract users. Today, the browser landscape looks totally different. For one thing, Chrome now dominates, controlling aroundtwo-thirds of the market on both desktop and mobile. Even more radical, though, is the recent…