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Latest · Outlook · 2027 · Privacy and AI deadlines

Privacy, AI and Online Safety Laws in 2027: Every Deadline Websites and Apps Need to Know

2027 is the year several laws passed in 2023 to 2026 start to bite: India's DPDP Rules, California's rules on automated decisions, Colorado's replacement AI law and the EU AI Act's high-risk duties. Here is every date in one place, and what each one changes for a website or app.

4 min · Nov 2, 2026Read

AI builders

AI builders · Lovable

Is Your Lovable App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Lovable makes it possible to go from idea to a live app with accounts, payments and AI in an afternoon. It also makes it possible to collect personal data from people in dozens of countries before you've read a single law. This page covers what a Lovable app usually needs before launch, and how to fix it without leaving the Lovable chat.

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AI builders · Cursor

Is Your Cursor App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Cursor's agent can scaffold an app, wire up sign-in, add Stripe and drop in analytics in one session. Every one of those steps has legal consequences that the agent won't raise unless you tell it to. This page shows the gaps that usually slip through, a rules file that prevents most of them, and fix prompts written for Cursor's agent.

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AI builders · Bolt

Is Your Bolt App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Bolt.new compresses weeks of setup into minutes: the app runs in your browser while it's being written, and deploys in a click. That speed means analytics, forms and payments arrive before anyone has asked what the law expects. This page lists what to check before you share the link, with prompts written for Bolt.

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AI builders · v0

Is Your v0 App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

v0 produces polished interfaces fast, and polished interfaces get shared. Before yours collects its first email address, it needs a few things that a component library doesn't provide: a notice, a real consent choice, accessible forms and an honest AI label if the app talks to users. This page covers them, with prompts written for v0.

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AI builders · Replit

Is Your Replit App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Replit's Agent can take an app from prompt to deployment with a database and sign-in included. Because everything lives in one place, it is easy to forget that the moment the deployment URL is shared, you are running a service that processes personal data. This page covers what to check, with prompts for Replit Agent.

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AI builders · Claude Code

Is Your Claude Code App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Claude Code works across your whole repository, runs your checks and can open pull requests. That makes it a strong partner for fixing compliance findings, as long as it knows the rules. This page shows the CLAUDE.md rules to add, the gaps to look for and prompts written for Claude Code.

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AI builders · Windsurf

Is Your Windsurf App Legally Compliant? GDPR, Cookies, AI and Security Before Launch

Windsurf's Cascade can build features end to end, which is exactly when compliance gets skipped: nobody asks whether the new analytics call needs consent or whether the new form needs a notice. This page gives you rules Cascade can follow, the usual gaps and prompts written for it.

6 minRead
Vibe coding · Launch compliance

Shipping in a Weekend, Facing Regulators on Monday: How SafeLaunch Brings Legal Checks to Vibe Coders

AI app builders made shipping fast. The law didn't speed up with them. Here is what applies the moment your weekend project takes its first real user, and how to check it before Monday.

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Privacy laws

Outlook · 2027 · Privacy and AI deadlines

Privacy, AI and Online Safety Laws in 2027: Every Deadline Websites and Apps Need to Know

2027 is the year several laws passed in 2023 to 2026 start to bite: India's DPDP Rules, California's rules on automated decisions, Colorado's replacement AI law and the EU AI Act's high-risk duties. Here is every date in one place, and what each one changes for a website or app.

4 minRead
India · DPDP Act 2023 · DPDP Rules 2025

DPDP Rules 2025: The Website and App Compliance Checklist for India (Deadline 14 May 2027)

India's data protection law is no longer a draft. The Rules were notified on 13 November 2025, and the duties that change how websites and apps work start on 14 May 2027. Here is what to fix, in the order a regulator would look.

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Privacy laws · GDPR · EU

GDPR Checklist for Websites and Apps: 16 Requirements, With the Article for Each

The GDPR is 99 articles long, but a website or app meets most of it through about 16 concrete things. Here they are, in plain English, with the article each one comes from and what the fix usually looks like.

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Privacy laws · California · CCPA, CPRA, CalOPPA

CCPA and CPRA Website Compliance: The Links, Notices and Signals California Requires

California has two privacy laws that reach websites. The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, applies once you pass its thresholds. CalOPPA applies to every commercial website that collects personal information from Californians, at any size. Here is what each one needs.

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Privacy notices · SaaS · AI apps

What a Privacy Policy for a SaaS or AI App Must Say: GDPR, CCPA, DPDP and More

Most privacy policies fail for one reason: they describe a different product. Here is what the main laws require a policy to say, what AI apps need to add, and how to check that yours matches what your app actually does.

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