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.

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