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A Dutch suicide prevention hotline was found to share sensitive visitor metadata with Google and Microsoft without proper consent, leading to the suspension of tracking tools and potential GDPR violations.
The author details their personal migration of digital infrastructure to European and Swiss-based services like Proton and Matomo to enhance data sovereignty and privacy.
A researcher discovered that deleteduser.com was being used as a placeholder domain by multiple companies to overwrite user email addresses during data deletion compliance, and after acquiring the domain, received PII from 30+ organizations including gyms, hotels, energy companies, and cybersecurity firms.
OpenAI announces data residency capabilities in Europe for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and API Platform, enabling organizations to store customer data at rest in-region and meet local data sovereignty and GDPR compliance requirements.