Privacy Policy Change Alerts
Watch the live privacy URL. Catch a data-use rewrite before it becomes an incident.
Privacy policy change alerts catch data-use edits before they become a compliance incident.
A processor adds "training" to a sharing paragraph. A subprocessors list grows by two names. A retention line stretches from 30 days to "as needed." Marketing calls it a clarification. Your DPA still points at yesterday's URL.
You will not catch that in a monthly privacy standup. The page is long. The diff is one sentence. By the time a customer asks, you are reconstructing history from archive.org.
Watch the policy page you already cite
Paste the public privacy URL you link from the product, the DPA, and the cookie banner. Write the rule in the language of the risk. Tell me when sharing, training, retention, or subprocessors change. Ignore layout and the cookie widget.
AyeWatch reads that live page and summarizes the edit. It is the same URL watch you would use for TOS. Privacy just has a shorter fuse. Platform TOS monitoring covers the vendor terms next to it. Keep them on separate topics so the ping is labeled.
If you also watch EU guidance, pair this with EU AI Act compliance monitoring or a Commission page. The policy you publish and the rule you must follow are different documents. Watch both.
Who should get the ping
Privacy counsel first. Product second if the copy lives in the app. Security if subprocessors moved. Do not dump this into a company-wide Slack. One noisy channel and people mute the real incident.
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This is not legal advice. It does not run a DPIA. It does not certify GDPR. It does not tell you whether the new sentence is lawful. It tells you the public policy you already cite no longer says what it said last week.
A visual change tool can prove a paragraph shifted for an auditor. Use that if you need a picture. Use an alert when you need the meaning the same day.
One page, then the vendors
Start with your own privacy URL. If the first ping is useful, add the processors you actually rely on. Legal teams monitor platform policies for the same reason. The words on the page are the ones customers will quote.