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Apr. 15, 2026

Cookie Compliance Strategies for 2026

  • Matt Fleischer-Black
    Cybersecurity Law Report
Many U.S. cookie compliance programs look sound on paper but fail in practice. Regulators and plaintiffs continue to find mismatches between what companies say they do and how their websites operate. This article provides actionable guidance for organizations to reduce their cookie-related risk amid surging litigation and aggressive enforcement. It distills commentary and a detailed cookie compliance roadmap that professionals from McDermott Will & Schulte, T-Mobile, U.S. Bank and Volkswagen presented at the IAPP Global Summit 2026, as well as insight from a Kroll expert who spoke to the Cybersecurity Law Report. See “Lessons From the Trenches: Winning Strategies for Defeating Pen Register Lawsuits” (Jun. 12, 2024).

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Trailblazing Women – Contributions, Achievements and Observations of Outstanding Leaders

To mark International Women’s Day, Law Report Group editors, along with our colleagues across ION Analytics’ products, interviewed outstanding women in the industries and jurisdictions we cover. In this article, Jill Abitbol, Robin Barton, Rorie Norton and Megan Zwiebel profile notable women in the data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, private funds and anti-corruption law fields, including (i) Paula Howell Anderson, (ii) Gwendolyn Lee Hassan, (iii) Audrey Koh, (iv) Stacy Feuer, (v) Heather Egan, (vi) Jeewon Serrato, (vii) Stephanie Breslow, (viii) Anne Choe, (ix) Heather Wyckoff, (x) Angie Batterson, (xi) Jacqueline Eaves, and (xii) C. Dabney O’Riordan.

Enjoy reading their inspiring remarks here.