Changelog
Every change we ship — to the widget, the checker, or our guidance — listed here with its date and the official source that motivated it. No entry, no change. This page is our accountability mechanism: we sell “we watch the law for you”, so you get to watch us do it.
This page is about us. For what the official sources themselves published — EUR-Lex, the Commission's guidelines, the Code of Practice — see the Article 50 radar. The two are kept separate on purpose: an official event does not always need a product change, and a product change is never a legal event.
Next known milestone: 2 December 2026 — end of the transitional marking period for AI tools already on the market before 2 August 2026 (Reg. (EU) 2026/1744, the “Digital Omnibus”). Marking itself applies since 2 August 2026.
2026-08-25
An audit of ourselves: three claims corrected, and your record of display is now yours alone
We audited this site the way we would audit a customer’s, and we are publishing what it found, because a company that sells transparency does not get to keep its own findings quiet. Three things we said were not true, and are now fixed. (1) Two pages promised that “one click sends the full instructions to your web person”. No such button was ever built; the pages now say what is actually true — forward the kit email, it opens on any device. (2) The Kit page headline said “Everything Article 50 asks of you, implemented”. It does not cover Article 50(3), emotion recognition and biometric categorisation, and our own free check already said so; the headline is corrected and the exclusion is named on the page before you buy. (3) Six pages and emails still offered “the launch price when checkout opens”, days after checkout opened on 22 August. That offer is gone: confirming an email now gets you one thing, the single alert if the Article 50 rules change. Two technical fixes matter to you as well. The record-of-display export could be run for any hostname by any kit holder; widget 1.4.0 records the Kit key printed in your own script tag, and the export now shows your displays and nobody else’s — still nothing about your visitors, before or after. And a discount code can no longer make a paid order arrive as the wrong product. The site now also sends the standard security response headers it was missing, and the panel line that already read “Notice served by disclosura.eu” is a link; data-credit="off" removes it.
Source: Article 50(3), the paragraph the Kit does not cover — Reg. (EU) 2024/1689
2026-08-22
Widget 1.2.0 with a record of display; the kit grows; privacy states retention periods
The hosted widget now keeps a dated “record of display”: each time the notice is rendered it sends our server only the site hostname, the page path, the language shown and the widget version — no cookie, no IP address, nothing about the visitor — and the kit page lets the site operator download that log as CSV or print it. It is a record that the notice was shown, not proof of compliance. The widget can also place the official “AI-generated” label on images marked data-ai-generated, in all 24 languages. The kit now adds: a register of AI systems (CSV/spreadsheet), opening messages for WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Telegram in 24 languages, synthetic-media caption templates in 24 languages, a staff AI-literacy briefing with an acknowledgment log (Art. 4), a self-declared implementation record for the quarterly re-check, a drop-in privacy-policy clause for businesses using an AI provider, a plain note on machine-readable marking (the kit does not watermark anything), and a WordPress plugin that installs the widget. Privacy now states how long we keep support emails (24 months) and order records (10 years). The background across the site is white; the product and the prices are unchanged.
Source: Commission guidelines on Article 50 transparency obligations (final, 20 July 2026)
2026-08-22
Checkout is open
The Kit (€49, one-time) and Updates (€9/month) can be bought. Checkout, receipt and invoice are issued by Link, a Stripe company, as merchant of record, and show our Stripe account name, IDEM Universal Works; Stripe adds and remits EU VAT, and an EU VAT number entered at checkout gets reverse charge. The personal kit link arrives by email within minutes of paying. Updates is run by the operator, a person: the hosted widget is kept current centrally, and subscribers are emailed when a change affects them and re-checked every quarter from their purchase. The site’s AI notice now states exactly what is reviewed by a person (EN/IT/RO) and what is AI-translated (the free check’s other 21 languages). The waitlist is closed; its addresses receive this launch notice and nothing else.
Source: Stripe Managed Payments documentation (merchant of record: Stripe)
2026-08-22
Kit delivery is now automatic; legal pages name the seller of record
When checkout opens, a paid order triggers an email from contact@disclosura.eu within minutes, carrying a personal link to the kit page and the five install steps — no manual step in between, and the kit page itself opens only with that link. The Imprint, Terms and Privacy pages (EN/IT/RO) now say plainly who is who: Leonard Irimia, a private individual, operates the site and is the GDPR controller; Stripe is the merchant of record on every purchase (Stripe Managed Payments — the checkout and invoice show Link, a Stripe company) and collects and remits EU VAT; the operating company will be registered after the first sales and published here when that happens. Privacy now lists only the processors that actually touch data: Stripe and Hostinger. Checkout is still closed at the time of this entry.
Source: Stripe Managed Payments documentation (merchant of record: Stripe)
2026-08-20
Free tools: the sample kit, the FAQ, the Article 50 radar and the AI-label icon picker
You can now see the kit before buying it — a real 6-page sample PDF, watermarked, with the disclosure text truncated and every citation intact. Three new free pages: an FAQ with the penalty numbers stated in full (both the ceiling and the SME proportionality rule), a dated log of what the official Article 50 sources actually published, and a picker for the European Commission’s official AI-label icons with a copy-paste snippet. All English for now. Same day we re-read the Official Journal text of Reg. (EU) 2026/1744 and the consolidated AI Act: every date and fine figure on this site matched, and the three “date to be confirmed” notes on the radar were removed. The site’s buttons and form fields were also redesigned; no wording changed.
2026-08-18
Widget + Kit texts now in all 24 official EU languages; pre-launch operator named
The disclosure widget (v1.1.0) and the Kit’s disclosure texts now ship in all 24 official EU languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. lang=auto now resolves regional variants (e.g. pt-BR → pt) and falls back to English. Separately, our Imprint and Privacy pages now name the pre-launch operator directly; the operating company will be registered and its full details published on those pages before checkout opens.
2026-08-18
Date corrections across the site (claims audit)
Our pre-launch claims audit caught two date errors and we fixed every occurrence: (1) we had presented 2 December 2026 as “the” marking deadline — in fact machine-readable marking applies since 2 August 2026, and 2 December 2026 is a transitional period only for tools already on the market before that date (Reg. (EU) 2026/1744, the “Digital Omnibus”); (2) we had described the high-risk regime as phasing in “through December 2027” — post-Omnibus it phases in through August 2028 (Annex III: 2 Dec 2027; Annex I: 2 Aug 2028). We also linked the now-published Code of Practice and Commission Guidelines in our marking guide.
2026-08-08
Removed EU ODR platform references from legal pages
The European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform was discontinued on 20 July 2025 (its founding regulation was repealed). Our Terms and Imprint pages in all languages no longer reference it; consumer disputes go directly to us, with national ADR bodies remaining available. Exactly the kind of stale legal reference this changelog exists to catch.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/3228 (repeal of the ODR Regulation)
2026-08-07
Widget v1.0.0 + site launch
Disclosure widget v1.0.0 released (badge + banner modes, EN/IT/RO/DE/FR, no cookies). Free 60-second check live. Kit checkout was not open yet at that date (it opened 22 Aug 2026); the waitlist form collected launch-price emails until then.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Art. 50 — in application since 2 Aug 2026.
2026-07-27
Reg. (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, enters into force — timelines adjusted
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI (published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026, in force 27 July 2026), moved the AI Act’s high-risk phase-in: Annex III systems to 2 December 2027 and Annex I systems to 2 August 2028. It also granted a transitional period until 2 December 2026 for the machine-readable marking of systems already on the market before 2 August 2026. Article 50 transparency duties themselves remain in application since 2 August 2026.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 — Official Journal of the EU, 24 July 2026
2026-07-20
Commission publishes final Guidelines on Article 50 transparency
The European Commission published its final Guidelines on the transparency obligations of Article 50 — the official interpretation of the chatbot-disclosure, marking and labeling duties this site implements. Our guides align with them; we re-check on every guidance release.
Source: Commission Guidelines on transparency of AI-generated content (20 July 2026)
2026-06-10
Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content published
The Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content was published on 10 June 2026 and subsequently assessed as adequate. It operationalizes the Art. 50(2) machine-readable marking duty for AI tool providers — the layer our Kit teaches you to verify in the tools you use.
Source: Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content (10 June 2026)