About Julie Oberweis
Julie Oberweis is Co-Founder and COO of Vault JS and a co-founder of Ensighten, the company that created the tag management category. She writes on CCPA/CPRA, CIPA, GDPR and U.S. state privacy law, and on how enforcement is shifting from policy review to testing what systems actually do.
Articles by Julie Oberweis
Four Takeaways From Our Conversation With CalPrivacy’s Tom Kemp
CalPrivacy Executive Director Tom Kemp on vendor validation, GPC enforcement sweeps, cross-device opt-outs, and reading settlements as guidance.
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Show Your Work: Privacy’s Shift to Continuous Assurance
Regulators are shifting from "do the work" to "show your work." In a recap of our webinar with PwC's Jake Meek, this blog discusses the...
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Configured Isn’t Compliant: Why Privacy Setup Alone Won’t Hold Up in 2026
In 2026, regulators test whether your privacy setup actually enforces consent. This blog recaps the webinar with Josh Manion and Richy Glassberg, CEO of Safeguard...
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Mobile App Privacy: Why it isn’t the same as website compliance
Mobile apps inherited the privacy policy but almost none of the technical scrutiny. One enterprise app ran at just 18.4% policy compliance. Here's the framework...
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Can You Sue Under CCPA Without a Data Breach? What Shah v. Capital One Means for Pixel Tracking
At a recent privacy event for Chief Privacy Officers in Los Angeles California, it wasn’t the relatively non existent CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) enforcement...
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VPPA Legislative Risk
VPPA cases are on the rise, with dozens of class action suits being filed against all manner of companies. Risk occurs when the title of a...
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What Are the Biggest Privacy Fines and How Can Businesses Avoid Them?
Fines and lawsuits related to data protection and privacy are a real risk for organizations in today’s environment. Enterprise websites are under particularly close scrutiny,...
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What Is Device Fingerprinting and Why Can’t Your Consent Tool Stop It?
A report out of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Public Policy found that “87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States...
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What Is Tag Piggybacking and How Does It Create Privacy Compliance Risk?
Your enterprise website is connected to a massive, constantly changing, interconnected, and partially hidden ecosystem of JavaScript tags. Often piggybacked to each other, these tags...
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Does Your Consent Management Platform Work the Same in Every Country?
As various countries and states develop their own privacy laws, one-size-fits-all consent management solutions aren’t always enough. As a result, enterprise websites have begun tailoring...
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Why Rule-Based Martech Scanners Miss the Threats That Matter
Once upon a time, there were three little martech Directors. They each implemented their favorite martech tools so they could serve their customers better and...
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What Are ETags and How Can Third-Party Vendors Use Them to Track Your Users?
Third-party cookies are on their way out, but does that mean tracking users will also crumble (see what I did there?). Probably not. There are...
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