Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA): What Website and App Operators Must Know About Compliance in 2026
If your website or app serves users under 17, or if minors could reasonably access your platform, you have a compliance challenge that goes beyond COPPA. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), reintroduced in the 119th Congress as S.1748, represents a significant expansion of federal obligations for digital platforms that…
Standard Contractual Clauses for US SaaS Companies: What You Need When Transferring Data to EU Customers
If your SaaS company has customers in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you are almost certainly transferring personal data from Europe to the United States. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that transfer is not automatically lawful. You need a legal mechanism to authorize it, and…
Biometric Data Privacy Compliance for Tech Companies: What BIPA and State Laws Require in 2026
If your app, platform, or software product collects fingerprints, facial geometry, voiceprints, iris scans, or any other biometric identifier from users, you are operating under one of the most litigation-heavy areas of US privacy law. The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) alone has generated thousands of class-action lawsuits since…
Multi-Tenant SaaS Data Isolation: What Your Customer Contracts Must Address
Learn what your SaaS customer contracts must include on multi-tenant data isolation. Covers architecture disclosure, access controls, breach notification, liability caps, and GDPR compliance.
Terms of Service for UGC Platforms: What User-Generated Content Clauses Must Include
If your platform allows users to post content — text, images, video, audio, reviews, or anything else — your terms of service are doing legal work that most founders underestimate. A UGC platform without properly drafted content clauses is exposed to copyright infringement claims, DMCA liability, platform manipulation, and regulatory…
What Every SaaS Subscription Agreement Must Include (And Why a Template Will Cost You)
Your SaaS company just signed its first enterprise customer. They are paying $2,400 a month, and the deal closed on a standard terms-of-service template you downloaded for free. Six months later, they dispute a billing cycle, claim your platform failed to meet an uptime promise that was never defined, and…
HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA): What SaaS Companies Need to Know
If your SaaS platform handles, stores, or processes health data on behalf of a healthcare provider, health insurer, or any other HIPAA-covered entity, you are almost certainly a business associate under federal law. That classification triggers a specific legal requirement: a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with every covered entity…
COPPA Compliance in 2026: What Your Children’s Privacy Policy Must Include
The FTC’s updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule went into effect on April 22, 2025, and the COPPA compliance 2026 requirements demand more from website and app operators than any prior version of the rule. The amendments add biometric data to the definition of personal information, require written security programs…
Data Processing Agreements for SaaS Companies: What You Need in 2026
If you run a SaaS company that handles customer data, you need a Data Processing Agreement. Not eventually. Not when your next enterprise customer asks for one. Right now, before your next customer signs up and before your next renewal conversation. In 2026, DPAs are no longer just a GDPR…