Today's Focus: Privacy & Personal Data Protection
Today's Top Story
CNIL email tracking-pixel consent deadline hits today
France's CNIL closes its three-month transition window today, 14 July 2026, for its recommendation on email tracking pixels (Deliberation No. 2026-042 of 12 March 2026, published 14 April 2026). From today, organisations sending emails with tracking pixels to French recipients must be able to demonstrate valid, freely given consent for pixel-based open/click measurement — including for contact lists compiled before the recommendation was adopted, subject to narrow exceptions for technical delivery and recipient-requested services. Non-compliant pixels are now exposed to CNIL's simplified sanction procedure. Source
Also Today
FTC settles with tenant-screening firm RentGrow for $2.25M — On 9 July 2026 the FTC announced a proposed settlement with RentGrow, Inc. (Massachusetts) over Fair Credit Reporting Act and FTC Act violations: duplicate criminal/eviction entries that overstated applicant records, failure to disclose all report information and sources on consumer request, and misleading consumers about dispute outcomes. RentGrow must overhaul its accuracy program and dispute process. Consumer reporting agencies and tenant-screening vendors: audit de-duplication and dispute workflows against this order. Source
⏰ Deadline Alert
18 July (4 days): Canada's Bill C-16 (Protecting Victims Act, S.C. 2026, c. 19) first tranche — including internet-service reporting and data-preservation amendments — is on track to come into force, subject to order-in-council commencement. Note: the bill's separate coercive-control offense does not take effect until 2028.
One Thing to Do Today
If you send marketing or transactional email with open/click tracking to French recipients — including legacy lists — confirm today that pixel-based tracking is gated on documented, freely given consent, or disable the pixels until it is.
Related briefings: Privacy daily: EU AI Act transparency rules (7 Jul) · Privacy daily: Connecticut privacy overhaul (30 Jun)
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