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Media and Publishers sites post the highest cookie consent rate of any tracked industry at 82.7%, while Energy and Utilities sits lowest at 69.6%, according to Didomi's 2026 State of Data Privacy Benchmark. See how all 16 industries compare, plus the gap between consent and true opt-in.
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72.9 million Americans now do independent or freelance work, according to MBO Partners' 2025 State of Independence report. No study measures freelancer websites directly, but Canada's privacy regulator found only 78% of the smallest businesses have a privacy policy at all, against 92% of large ones.
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Fewer than 10% of education technology products evaluated by Common Sense Education meet the criteria for its 2025 Privacy Seal. See what that means for Udemy-style course platforms, cohort sites, and LMS tools under FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and CCPA.
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Real estate sites collect more than a typical contact form: MLS/IDX listing data, lead capture funnels, and mortgage calculator inputs each need their own disclosure. Here is what to include.
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Texas's privacy enforcement team has investigated more than 200 companies since the Data Privacy and Security Initiative launched in June 2024, per the Texas Attorney General's July 2025 update. See the first TDPSA lawsuit, the data broker sweep, and how the state's separate multibillion-dollar Meta and Google settlements fit into its broader privacy enforcement record.
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At least 12 US states require businesses to honor a universal opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control as of August 2026, per compiled state Attorney General guidance. See which states mandate it, when each requirement took effect, and what enforcement looks like so far.
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