Shift this week launched Shift AI, a privacy-first browser with Cloudflare proxy and optional AI features, as 44% of users worry AI could act without approval.

Infillion MediaMath published a 15-question DSP buyer guide on AI architecture, pricing transparency, data ownership, and identity resolution for programmatic.

News/Media Alliance sent a formal letter to Common Crawl demanding it stop unauthorized scraping and block AI companies from using news content for training.

OpenAI updated its US privacy policy on April 30 to formalize advertiser data sharing, purchase data receipt, and user targeting through marketing partners.

Spain's AEPD fined Bankinter €240,000 over a 2024 API vulnerability at EVO Banco that exposed financial and identity data of 1.27 million people in Spain.

Italy's Garante fined Intesa Sanpaolo 17.6M euros for secretly profiling 2.4 million bank customers to select them for the Isybank transfer, violating GDPR.

Norwegian DPA warns Schibsted's 39-krone privacy fee could harm vulnerable users and raises GDPR consent questions across Aftenposten, VG, Bergens Tidende.

Amazon Q1 2026: advertising hit $17.2B at 24% growth and crossed $70B TTM, while AWS infrastructure and AI chip deals redraw the map for the ad industry.