Compliance blog
Practical guides, regulatory updates, and expert insights to help you navigate GDPR, the EU AI Act, and beyond.
Running Compliance Checks in Your CI Pipeline — A 15-Minute Setup
Add GDPR consent, WCAG accessibility, and security-header checks to your CI in 15 minutes with ComplyTest. Block merges on critical failures, get a SARIF report in GitHub Code Scanning, no account required.
READ →What 'GDPR Compliant' Actually Means for a Frontend Developer
GDPR compliance for developers is mostly a frontend problem hiding behind legal language. Here is the regulation translated into the consent, cookie, header, and accessibility checks you can actually put in code.
READ →Why Your Cookiebot Scan Says You're Compliant — But Your Audit Will Fail
A cookie scanner counts trackers. A GDPR audit tests whether your consent banner actually works. We ran real European news sites through our engine — the banner was present, but there was no Reject button. Here is what that looks like.
READ →Consent, Competition, and Dark Patterns: Why Data Protection Is Becoming a Market Power Issue
Consent is no longer only a privacy issue. In 2026, regulators are examining how consent design, market power, dark patterns, and digital advertising interact.
READ →EDPB Research Data Guidelines 2026: Consent, Legal Basis, and AI Training Risks
The EDPB's 2026 scientific research guidelines clarify how GDPR applies to research data, broad consent, special category data, reuse of datasets, AI training, and transparency.
READ →Verifiable Consent in 2026: Why "We Have a CMP" Is Not Enough
Consent compliance in 2026 is moving from banner design to evidence. Learn how to prove consent choices, browser behavior, vendor control, and policy accuracy.
READ →GDPR Transparency Checks: Can Users Actually Understand Your Tracking?
GDPR transparency is back in regulatory focus in 2026. Learn how to test whether your privacy notice, cookie banner, vendors, cookies, storage, and tracking behavior actually match.
READ →10 Years of GDPR: The Website Compliance Lessons Most Companies Still Miss
Ten years after the GDPR entered into force, website compliance is no longer about publishing a privacy policy. It is about proving what happens in the browser.
READ →EU AI Act Deadlines After the 2026 Omnibus: What Changed and What Did Not
The EU AI Act timeline has become more complicated after the 2026 Digital Omnibus agreement. Here is what changed, what did not, and how SaaS and AI teams should plan.
READ →EU AI Act High-Risk Classification Guide for SaaS Teams
Learn how to determine whether your AI feature is high-risk under the EU AI Act, with a practical classification workflow for SaaS teams, product managers, and compliance leads.
READ →Your Cookie Banner Is Not Enough: How to Scan Storage and Access Technologies
Modern compliance audits must test more than cookies. Learn how to scan cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, pixels, scripts, tags, fingerprinting signals, and consent states.
READ →UK ICO Cookie Guidance 2026: Why Cookies, Pixels, Tags, and LocalStorage Now Need One Audit
The ICO's April 2026 guidance makes one thing clear: compliance is no longer only about cookies. Tracking pixels, scripts, tags, fingerprinting, link decoration, and localStorage must be audited together.
READ →We Scanned 4 Compliance Tools With Our Own Scanner. Here's What We Found.
We ran ComplyTest's 47-rule audit against Cookiebot, OneTrust, Monsido, and Deque. Every single one failed their own compliance standards.
READ →The Complete GDPR Compliance Checklist for 2026
A practical, actionable checklist covering all GDPR requirements — from consent management to data subject rights. Updated for 2026 enforcement trends.
READ →7 Cookie Consent Mistakes That Could Cost You a GDPR Fine
Most websites get cookie consent wrong. Here are the 7 most common mistakes we find when scanning thousands of sites — and how to fix them.
READ →European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know Before June 2025
The EAA takes effect June 28, 2025. Here's what it requires, who it applies to, and how to prepare your website for compliance.
READ →EU AI Act Compliance Guide: What You Need to Know in 2026
The EU AI Act is now in effect. Learn about the risk-based classification system, key obligations for deployers and providers, and how to prepare your organization for compliance.
READ →GDPR Fines in 2026: Trends, Record Penalties, and What They Mean for You
GDPR enforcement is intensifying. Here are the biggest fines of 2025-2026, the emerging enforcement trends, and what your organization needs to do to avoid becoming a statistic.
READ →Is Your Website GDPR Compliant? The Complete 2026 Checklist
A comprehensive checklist covering every aspect of GDPR compliance for your website — from cookie consent and privacy policies to data subject rights and breach notification procedures.
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