Lucid folks, There's an accidental theme this issue, and it's a question: who's holding the data, and who gets to reach into it? Our feature finds three children's-safety laws quietly arguing over who...

Lucid folks, There's a comforting story regulators like to tell: the deadline is coming, so get your house in order before it lands. This week complicates it.

Lucid folks, This week’s stories all land in the messy middle between deciding what should happen and figuring out who has to make it happen. DPOs are being pulled into AI governance before many organ...

Lucid folks, There is a strange asymmetry in privacy law: companies can collect, enrich, sell, append, and resell personal information at scale, but the person trying to undo that chain is often sent ...

Lucid folks, A lot of privacy fights used to be about what companies collected. This week, the more interesting question is where control gets built in.

Lucid folks, This week is about the hidden costs of making everything feel easy. For a long time, the internet made a simple promise: the machinery could get more complicated as long as the experience...

Google’s June consent update will make consent setup more critical by making user permission the main control for how Ads collects/uses data.

Lucid folks, For years, privacy compliance has had a comforting little fantasy at its center: someone asks for their data to be deleted, the company finds the data, and the data disappears. Very neat.

Lucid folks, For a long time, compliance left room for storytelling: describe a system cleanly enough, and the reality of how personal data was handled could stay in the background, undisturbed, and u...

Lucid folks, Most things work fine right up until someone actually asks how they work. That’s sort of where we are right now.