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532,319 new US business applications were filed in January 2026 alone, per the Census Bureau's Business Formation Statistics. No study directly tracks how many launch without a privacy policy or terms and conditions page, but Penn State's 66% and Greenberg Traurig's 92% Fortune 500 figure bracket the likely answer.
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Only 34% of UK sole traders say they strongly understand their GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 requirements, versus 73% of large businesses, per the government's UK Business Data Survey 2021. See how that gap has moved through 2024 and 2026, and how many small firms still believe GDPR does not apply to them.
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Wix sets its own session and analytics cookies before you install anything, then Marketing Integrations and App Market apps add more. Here's what a Wix cookie policy actually needs to cover.
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No regulator publishes a clean percentage of how many online stores meet privacy law, but GDPR's industry and commerce sector logged 588 fines totaling nearly EUR 395 million, per CMS Law's GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report 2026 (published May 2026). See the largest single fine, US CCPA enforcement against retailers, and what the numbers actually show.
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Meta earned $57.03 per person worldwide in advertising revenue during 2025, according to its Q4 2025 earnings report published January 28, 2026. See what specific data types are worth to advertisers, data brokers, and criminals.
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Only 19.8% of global browser traffic blocks third-party cookies by default in 2026, per StatCounter Global Stats, even after Google retired its Privacy Sandbox replacement. See the browser-by-browser breakdown, Chrome's six-year reversal, and how little of the ad industry adopted the replacement APIs.
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