Newsroom: Spring 2026

About this episode

The episode provides a comprehensive update on ePrivacy, regulatory changes, and the future of media as of Spring 2026.

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. This is a…

People in this episode

Host: Sergio Maldonado

Topics covered

• ePrivacy
• regulatory updates
• MarTech
• AdTech
• AI
• digital markets
• future of media

Keywords

• age-verification
• data collection
• email tracking
• social media bans
• AI labs
• contract management
• digital markets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Firmas.io, TODO.LAW

Places: UK, Spain, California, France, Italy, US

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