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Trusted Global Privacy Specialists for Data-Driven Companies
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2016
https://t.co/5FOHYZDf3C In this issue: ➡️ Italy fines Apple €116 million over App Store privacy practices ➡️ Google asks a NY court to roll multiple ad tech antitrust lawsuits into one ➡️ CA introduces a bill to ban sensitive data sales
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Lucid folks, It’s the first full week of 2026. The calendars have flipped, the grace periods have expired, and a lot of things that used to live in planning decks are now simply how the law works.
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In this issue: 👉 QR codes seem innocuous, but there is a data economy underlying those useful buggers 👉 An important update on the Latombe decision, and the DPF withstands its greatest threat … for now …and more. https://t.co/RAWX6zbLDI
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Lucid folks, With Labor Day behind us, summer is entering its last phase and we’re gearing up for a hectic fall. For Lucid, that includes a few big changes, including new team members and new...
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In this issue ✔︎Texas signs SB 140 into law: what this means for telemarketers, including SMS/MMS ✔︎Important update on wiretapping laws in CA (CIPA), including recent survival of claims against dismissal and intersection with federal wiretapping laws https://t.co/wSs6LQHF0o
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Lucid folks, Our patchwork of privacy laws in the US just keeps getting more intricate and colorful, with odd knots and hidden thorns in places you wouldn’t expect. Texas has a new privacy law for...
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In this issue: ➡️ Lucid’s Ross Webster on the implications of the ICO’s Privacy First Advertising consultation. ➡️ Real world consequences of the UK Ministry of Defense’s suppressed data breach https://t.co/G1XCFYchJR
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Lucid folks, We don’t talk enough about the positive impacts of privacy rules over time, in part because much of the benefit is the absence of negative consequences. Unfortunately, the downsides can...
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In this issue: ✔️ The ICO has big cookie compliance ambitions (1,000 web sites!), but still won’t follow the money ✔️ Elon wants Grok to re-write all of human knowledge, while Orwell says he told you so ✔️ Workday getting heat over AI hiring practices https://t.co/dFghRskdOm
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In This Issue: ✔︎ AI accelerationists are banning the religious zealots who think they’ve found AI Jesus. ✔︎ Courts are pushing back on weak class action cases with credibility problems, while California races to close down the CIPA loopholes. https://t.co/wOJSP5HIUJ
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In this issue: ➡️ Belgian Court of Appeal confirms resolution of the TCF case ➡️ European Commission announces a ‘SME Relief Package’ that requires a bit of squinting ➡️ DPC waves Meta user data through for AI training https://t.co/f3WEtT2IkA
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Lucid folks, As we bring you our latest installment, summer is approaching and the weather is improving. The flowers are out and the sun stays with us until the mid evening.
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In this issue: 🔺 Apple, Meta & the Digital Markets Act: we ask if the DMA is the EU’s new data protection darling 🔺 We dig deep into the ICO’s recent guidance on anonymization 🔺 Google says goodbye to Privacy Sandbox (and hello to a potential breakup)
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Lucid folks, If you had asked the Lucid Team in 2020 to predict the state of the world in 2025, the results would have been murky at best. While we likely would have forecast a world with more...
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In this issue: ✅ The EU stirs things up with potential GDPR reform ✅ The Trade Desk faces two new lawsuits over potential violations of CA law. ✅ UK Regulators have some thoughts on kids & social media https://t.co/2IBPTs85OP
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Lucid folks, A fascinating conversation is underway in Europe about the GDPR, a law that transformed the privacy world. Beyond Europe, the GDPR has established a global standard for comprehensive...
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In this issue: 📌 23andMe in bankruptcy court 📌 How the recent FTC sackings may spell trouble for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework 📌 Signalgate 📌 Google suggests that no news may be good news (for avoiding copyright royalties in the EU) ...and more. https://t.co/LWY7GEys9f
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Lucid folks, In this edition, we have three perfect privacy parables. Each parable has been scripted by the authors to illustrate the importance of privacy by design, and the ineffectiveness of...
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In this issue: ➡️ The CPPA has a board meeting..... ➡️Adtech encircled and facing state AGs coming from multiple angles. ➡️ The privacy impact of Trump’s browbeating, bullying and “America First” policy on the UK and Europe ...
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Lucid folks, What an interesting time to be operating in privacy. In data protection, as in politics, we are increasingly watching competing visions collide in high stakes battles, rather than the...
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In this issue: 👉 TX has established itself as a heavyweight in the state enforcement game 👉 CA signals a broadening of their view of the Data Broker category with its latest enforcement action 👉 Lucid’s latest public resource: COPCA
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In this issue: 👉 Texas has established itself as a heavyweight in the state enforcement game. Check the Lucid blog link for an overview of recent enforcement actions and a side by side comparison of...
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In this issue: ☑️ The EFF, 20 state AGs, and Lucid’s Ben Isaacson weigh in on Elon Musk and DOGE hoovering up enormous tranches of data ☑️ The ICO weighs in on Consent or Pay ☑️ University of Chicago sending out DSAR inquiries for research purposes? https://t.co/yjUO9vbi9g
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Lucid folks, Remember when we used to talk about data protection rules and the ways it was evolving and how this would impact real people and the companies that rely on their data? What a charming...
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In this issue: ✅ Lucid’s Ben Isaacson goes deep on the 19 US State laws and their implications for tracking opt-outs on sites and apps. ✅ Running out of time to comment on the CPPA’s (California) Automated Decision Making Technology rules ...and more. https://t.co/ASjVWxLHgI
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Lucid folks, Perhaps it was only a matter of time before the warming water in US State AG offices would bring us to a GDPR-like simmer. Increasingly, we’re hearing from global companies that they are...
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In this issue: ☑️ICO issues detailed guidance ☑️Google reverses course ☑️A federal judge in the US allows a class action case to proceed against Google #changecoming #ICO #digitalprivacy
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In this issue: ☑️ The FTC has consent fatigue too? ☑️ Blog boomerangs ☑️ No news Roundups -- the cycle needs new tires #privacy #FTC #hopesprings
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Lucid folks, The winter holidays are almost here. We will be taking a break starting next week, returning to our writing desks in the new year, refreshed and with an updated format.
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In this issue: ✔️CNIL France has lessons for the UK government ✔️Cambridge Analytica may be mostly fiction ✔️ChatGPT has a GDPR-driven bug #exemptions #GDPRreform #CNIL
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Lucid folks, If you have the feeling that you've read this story before, you have. Meta is back at the European Court of Justice (EUCJ), challenging its €225 million ($236 million) GDPR fine against...
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In this op-ed issue: ➡️ Publishers on ‘Consent or Pay’ and contextual ads ➡️ Meta’s Consent or Pay concession, in context ➡️ The CMP market is booming #consent #paradox #digitalprivacy
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Lucid folks, Few issues garner as much debate at the #privacypro dinner table as the issue of user consent -- where it’s overused as a legal basis, whether those who get it at scale cheat, and which...
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In this issue: ✅ On CTV privacy ✅ What the heck is “ACR”? ✅ The financial sector has a privacy donut hole #CTV #digitalprivacy #interoperabilty
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Lucid folks, Both the DOJ and the UK's CMA are putting Google under the microscope, but from different angles. In the U.
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In this issue: ➤Takeaways from the CPPA’s Board Meeting ➤ On the state of the UK's GDPR reforms ➤ FCC enforcers told to put their pencils down #privacy #regulation #deregulation
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