One brief, two languages: the EU privacy article, source by source

What each source contributed

The Commission's press release gave the deadline and the scope: adoption on Tuesday, application from 2027 in stages, and the extension to companies outside the EU that serve EU users. Reuters and AP, independently, gave the consent change: platforms may no longer make access conditional on accepting tracking, and refusing must be as simple as accepting. The Guardian added that the package replaces the 2009 cookie rules. Every one of those claims has two or more origins behind it.

The figures only one outlet had

Politico's report contained the most quotable number in the set. More than 12,000 companies outside the EU process the data of EU users^†, most of them in software and customer support. No other outlet carried it, so the sentence is attributed to Politico in the article and underlined here. The editor kept it with a note rather than adding a source, because none of the other four had the figure to add.

The Guardian had the other. The UK regulator is preparing guidance for British companies that serve EU users^†. A third figure, fines reaching four percent of global turnover, was printed by three outlets but AP and Politico were both carrying the Reuters wire paragraph: three outlets, one origin. Counting outlets calls that corroborated; the pipeline counts origins, and the sentence is attributed to Reuters in the article.

What changed in the Spanish version

The Spanish version came from the same brief for one extra credit. It is not a translation of the English draft; it is the same source set written again in Spanish, with the same claims checked and the same two flags carried over. "Según cifras publicadas por Politico" attributes the 12,000 figure exactly as the English does. The label reads the same in both: generado a partir de fuentes, revisado por una persona: sí.

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