Server-Side Fingerprinting Explained: How Tracking Works Without Cookies

Server-side fingerprinting links user sessions even when browser signals change. This post explains how it works, why traditional defenses fail, and the risks it creates...

IAB Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA) Update 2026: What Advertisers Need to Know

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...

Beyond the Policy: 2025 GDPR Enforcement Trends and the Rise of Operational Accountability

By 2025, European regulators made a clear shift in approach: compliance is no longer judged by the wording of a privacy policy, but by the...

CIPA: Why Old Statutes May Be the Strongest Force of Web Privacy

Modern privacy regimes such as the GDPR and CCPA bring strong privacy requirements, yet their lack of robust enforcement makes the compliance limited. By contrast,...

Shah v Capital One CCPA PRA Risk

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...

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...

Legal Risks to Businesses

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,...

Device Fingerprinting: Tracking Without Cookies or Consent

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...

Tag Piggybacking — The Invisible 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...

Compliance for Geotargeted Consent Management Programs

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...

Are iFrames Bypassing Your Website Security and Cookie Compliance?

If your site streams video or audio content, displays social feeds, serves up dynamic maps, news, ads or data, then it likely uses iframes. Most...

Security Warning: Data Theft Identified

Since July 25, 2022 Vault JS experts have identified suspicious code on nearly 60 different websites that are running web marketing tools from Showcase-TV. These...