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EU AI Act
EN 18286:2026 Is Published. Here's What It Actually Changes.
The harmonized standard everyone was waiting for is now official. For organizations that built compliance documentation against the draft, here is what needs to change and what does not.
John Smutniak · Oct 30, 2026 Read →
ISO 42001
AI Risk Management Under ISO 42001: What the Standard Actually Requires
Most organizations treat Clause 6 as a documentation exercise. The standard asks for something harder and more useful: a process that connects identified risks to specific AI behaviors, and to controls that are measurably operating.
John Smutniak · Sep 18, 2026 Read →
Analytics
7 Reasons to Move Your GA4 Data to BigQuery
GA4's built-in interface caps what you can measure and for how long. Moving data to BigQuery removes those limits and opens up the kind of analysis the standard reports can't produce.
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Analytics
Five Steps to Analytics Compliance Without Losing Your Data
Cookie consent, data residency, and evolving privacy rules have made analytics more complicated than it used to be. These five steps keep the data intact while keeping the lawyers calm.
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Analytics
Why BigQuery Skills Are Now Essential for GA4 Teams
The analysts who can write SQL against BigQuery have a different relationship with GA4 data than the ones who can't. Here's what that gap looks like in practice.
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