GRC Report Staff

Since early access opened, solution providers have been claiming spots at a measured but consistent pace. Of the 100 early access placements made available, fewer than 90 remain. Our team behind GRC Report says the interest reflects something they’ve been hearing more often over the past year. Practitioners are tired of trying to make sense of the GRC technology market through vague categories, inflated claims, and review sites that don’t quite pass the sniff test.

Sweden’s data protection watchdog is starting 2026 with a quieter but meaningful internal reset, one that reflects how enforcement, guidance, and technology are increasingly intertwined in day-to-day GDPR oversight.

Italy’s antitrust authority has drawn a hard line under what it describes as one of the most serious competition law breaches ever uncovered in the country’s industrial sector, fining 16 iron foundries and their trade association, Assofond, a combined €70 million for running a covert price-coordination scheme that spanned two decades.

A federal judge has approved a $10 million settlement requiring Disney to resolve allegations that the company enabled the unlawful collection of children’s personal data through kid-directed content on YouTube, marking the latest escalation in U.S. enforcement of children’s online privacy rules.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s failure to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would violate an existing court order, according to the Economic Times, rejecting the administration’s argument that no lawful funding mechanism remains available to keep the agency operating.

The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) has published new guidance aimed squarely at federal public authorities developing or using AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). The guide, “AI in Public Authorities – Considering Data Protection from the Outset,” is intended to help officials spot data protection issues early and take a more structured, practical approach to AI projects.

For years, pyramid schemes were thought of as a relic of the 1990s. According to Poland’s competition authority, they never really went away. They just learned new language, new platforms, and new disguises. On December 30, 2025, the President of UOKiK announced more than $6 million (over PLN 24 million) in combined fines against two U.S.-based companies, iGenius and International Markets Live, concluding that both operated prohibited pyramid-type incentive schemes.