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• California Attorney General

  Every entry on the Attorney General's own "Privacy Enforcement Actions" page.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the Attorney General's own summary of the entry on that page, word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: Source: California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, oag.ca.gov · Public domain (California DOJ Conditions of Use)

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy)

  Everything in the agency's newsroom feed: it publishes only on privacy.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the first paragraph of the agency's post, word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: Source: California Privacy Protection Agency, privacy.ca.gov · Public domain (ca.gov Conditions of Use)

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Posts EFF itself files under its Privacy category. EFF is an advocacy group and often a party to the cases it writes about.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the first paragraph EFF itself wrote (quoted text from others is skipped), word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: EFF — CC BY 4.0 — excerpted · CC BY 4.0

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• European Data Protection Board

  Everything in the Board's English news feed: it publishes only on data protection.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the first paragraph of the Board's news item, word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: Source: European Data Protection Board, edpb.europa.eu — excerpted; the headline is reproduced without alteration · EDPB reuse notice (acknowledge the source; do not distort it)

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• Federal Register

  Documents filed under named privacy rules by the agency that owns them (for example the FTC under 16 CFR part 312, the children's privacy rule), chosen by agency and rule number, never by keyword.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the document's abstract, as the Federal Register publishes it, word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: Source: Federal Register, federalregister.gov · Public domain (1 CFR 2.6)

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• United States Federal Trade Commission

  Consumer-protection press releases whose own Topics list includes privacy.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, date, link, and a short excerpt: the summary the FTC gives for the release in its own press-release feed, word for word, as text.

  Credit and licence: Source: United States Federal Trade Commission, www.ftc.gov · U.S. Government work (public domain)

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

• TechCrunch

  Headlines from TechCrunch's privacy feed, shown as headline, outlet, date and link only, as its feed terms allow.

  What DeSpy shows: Headline, the outlet, the date and a link only — never any text.

  Credit and licence: TechCrunch · TechCrunch RSS terms of use

  Publishing: on — new entries appear once they pass the checks below.

How entries are chosen

• Each source is read by an automated program on DeSpy's own server. Nothing is chosen by an AI model, and no AI writes any text here.
• A source's own structure decides what is about privacy — its privacy category or topic list, the rule it was filed under, or a page that covers only privacy. Words in the body of a story never decide it.
• A regulator's or a government publisher's own record — the FTC, CalPrivacy, the California Attorney General, the EDPB and the Federal Register — is shown as that source published it, including the people and the companies it names. DeSpy does not leave anyone out of an official record.
• An advocacy group's entry and a news outlet's headline are shown the same way: exactly as the source published them, including the people they name. DeSpy holds nothing back for a name, and adds nothing to what the source said.
• A source publishes on its own only after a person has read a sample of what it would publish and switched it on.

Status of a matter

Most entries say "Status: not tracked by DeSpy", with the date DeSpy last read the source's record and a link to where the source keeps the matter — its case page when it has one. DeSpy does not follow a case, rule or bill after the source's announcement, so it cannot say whether a complaint was proven, settled, dropped or overturned. When a person at DeSpy has checked the status, the entry says so and gives the date it was checked. The one exception is a California Privacy Protection Agency item the agency itself files under "Board decision": the entry shows that category, in the agency's own words, and nothing more.

Companies

An entry is linked to a company only when the source names it in the headline or in its own case record, using a spelling on DeSpy's list below, or when a person at DeSpy links it. The entry shows the name as the source spelled it, and says so when DeSpy lists that spelling under another company (a brand under its parent, for example). A company mentioned only in the body of a story is not linked, and a party that is not on the list is simply not linked — the entry is still published. These are the companies and exact spellings DeSpy recognises:

What is not automated

• Court dockets are added by a person, as links.
• News coverage is automatic only from outlets whose feed terms allow it to be shown, and then only as a headline, the outlet, the date and a link. Other coverage is added by a person as "Also reported by" links, with the outlet's own headline.
• Newsletters are never read automatically.

Privacy on these pages

No trackers, embeds, previews or images from other sites. Links to sources open the source directly and send it no referrer.

Corrections

If an entry is wrong, email privacy@despy.app and quote the code at the bottom of the entry. A correction updates the entry's status, with the date DeSpy checked it, and keeps the source's record as the source published it. DeSpy takes an entry down only when DeSpy itself showed it wrongly — the wrong link, or a garbled headline, for example.