Sentinel Insights is excited to join this year’s Navigate: Digital Policy Leadership Retreat, hosted by the IAPP in partnership with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. This exclusive gathering brings privacy, legal, and policy leaders together to shape the future of digital governance in a complex and evolving regulatory environment. We’re especially looking forward to engaging in conversation regarding real-time consent validation and why it’s essential for teams managing data collection risk.
Digital Policy Is Converging
Compliance obligations now span privacy, AI governance, cybersecurity, competition law, and cross-border data transfers. These overlapping demands push legal teams and privacy professionals beyond documentation. Policies must be enforced and supported by verifiable data.
For law firms and in-house counsel, one of the most urgent challenges is proving that websites’ data collection consent settings are not only collected but respected, consistently and verifiably. IAPP’s Navigate highlights how legal, policy, and technical strategies must align to meet growing regulatory expectations.
Who’s Tracking Your Tracking Technologies?
Most organizations assume their consent banners and CMPs are doing the job. But who’s monitoring how tracking technologies behave for real users, in real time? Not the CMP.
Without insight into what fires when, or whether consent is honored across the entire user journey, legal teams face gaps they can’t explain or defend. Sentinel fills that gap with real-world evidence.
Turning Consent Policy into Practice
Sentinel closes the gap between privacy policy and what actually happens on your site. Our platform monitors live user sessions to show exactly how tracking tools behave, and whether consent is applied correctly. Legal and compliance teams get clear, actionable data to support continuous governance.
Monitoring What Matters: Real-Time Consent Validation
Consent management goes far beyond just displaying a cookie consent banner. It requires ongoing oversight.
Sentinel monitors 100% of user traffic and detects when data is collected without valid consent. It pinpoints where and why breakdowns occur, and enables you to fix it fast, before regulators or class action lawsuits come knocking at your door.
Beyond Static Testing: Sentinel is Always Watching
Audits and synthetic tests offer point-in-time reassurance. Sentinel offers something much more valuable: continuous, real-user monitoring. Our platform uncovers issues traditional testing often misses. That means fewer blind spots and stronger data privacy programs.
Supporting Legal Teams with Evidence
Legal and privacy leaders need more than policy documentation or vague “we’re good!” assurances from development teams. They need evidence that shows how their MarTech stack behaves in the real world.
Privacy teams rely on Sentinel Insights to:
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Investigate potential privacy violations
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Validate third-party behavior during internal reviews
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Deliver evidence they need for peace of mind
By tracking how consent preferences and marketing technologies are managed for actual human beings on your website, Sentinel helps legal teams turn principles into operational strategies that hold up under scrutiny.
Join Us at Navigate
We’re looking forward to meeting with policy and legal leaders at Navigate 2025 in Portsmouth. If your team is focused on risk reduction, trust-building, or operationalizing privacy requirements, let’s connect.
Ready to see if your MarTech stack is actually honoring your users’ consent preferences? Fill out the form below to schedule time with our team.
About the Event
IAPP Navigate: Digital Policy Leadership Retreat 2025
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
June 25–26, 2025
Hosted in partnership with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center
Learn more on the IAPP website
Navigate is a unique opportunity to collaborate with leaders shaping the future of responsible technology. Sentinel Insights is proud to be part of the discussion.