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98.2% of the 826,000 ad-enabled apps Pixalate analyzed across the Apple App Store and Google Play had a detectable privacy policy in its Q4 2024 GDPR Evasion report, published March 2025. See which platform lags, why the remaining apps have none, and how that compares to 2014's baseline.
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Vermont and Louisiana enacted new comprehensive privacy laws in 2026, and amendments to Connecticut's, Arkansas's, and Utah's existing laws took effect July 1. Here is what substantively changed in each.
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Terms of Service and Terms and Conditions are usually the same type of document under a different, industry-driven name. Here's when the label matters and which one fits your business.
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On July 6, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to block Texas's App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), letting the state's age-verification and parental-consent requirements stay in force while the Fifth Circuit hears the case.
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Shopify's Merchant Terms of Service require a privacy policy from merchants using Enhanced Services like Shopify Payments, but no independent audit has measured compliance across the 2.85 million actively trading stores counted by Store Leads in February 2026. Here is what is actually verifiable.
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On July 21, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) announced its Audits Division had opened its first formal CCPA sectoral audit, targeting how gig economy platforms handle consumer and worker access requests.
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