PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 500+ Reports received >90% Cases resolved
Singapore
Singapore Online Safety Act IMDA
500+ reports and a 90% resolution rate in two months suggest narrow, victim-triggered takedown powers can work better than platform-wide content mandates.
2026-09-23
RESEARCH 18M+ Telenor Myanmar customers 1,253 Phone numbers' data disclosed
Global
2026-09-23
Norway charged Telenor over Myanmar data handovers and a sanctioned surveillance sale — a landmark case with a real chil...
RESEARCH 6 Platforms under freeze order 6 months Freeze duration
Thailand
2026-09-23
TCCT's blanket freeze on six platforms' merchant fees substitutes price control for the disclosure rules ETDA finalized ...
RESEARCH ~80% Xiaohongshu fraud cases down ~55% Xiaohongshu-li nked losses down
Taiwan
2026-09-23
An 80% drop in Xiaohongshu-linked fraud looks decisive until you notice national fraud fell too — and Article 42 has no ...
RESEARCH 65+ Accounts geoblocked 5 years Max prison term cited
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-23
X quietly began complying with Saudi requests to geoblock 60+ dissident accounts in July 2026, after months of publicly ...
RESEARCH 2-0 FTC vote to publish Sept 25, 2026 Extended comment deadline
US
2026-09-23
FTC's 2-0 policy statement says undisclosed algorithmic pricing may violate Section 5 — but it deliberately stops short ...
RESEARCH 3 Regulatory functions merged 12 Bills moving same week
Africa
2026-09-23
The Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Bill lets carriers intercept communications on suspicion, with only after-th...
RESEARCH 153M+ IDs exposed in Nexus breach 6 hours CERT-In incident reporting window
India
2026-09-23
A 153-million-record US ID-scan breach exposes the accountability gap in India's DPDP Act: harsh fines for vendors, unch...
RESEARCH 3 Azure Availability Zones 68MW to 440MW+ Datacenter Capacity Growth
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-23
Microsoft's November 2026 Saudi Arabia East region ties Azure to Vision 2030 and data residency law — sovereignty built ...
RESEARCH 2.6M Daily Cyberattacks Recorded +6% Cyberattack Growth Rate
Taiwan
2026-09-23
Minister Lin Yi-jing's Washington trip shows Taipei countering China's AI-narrative pressure with corpora and cyber coop...
RESEARCH 1x per year Important data assessment cadence 20 working day Report filing deadline
China
2026-09-23
CAC's first operational rulebook on data risk assessment gives firms a predictable process, but leaves 'important data' ...
RESEARCH 6 hours CERT-In reporting window 7 principles AI Governance Guidelines principles
India
2026-09-23
MeitY plans to tighten AI incident reporting timelines and content, layering a new regime atop CERT-In's 2022 six-hour c...
RESEARCH 3 Platforms seeking Ninth Circuit stay 1 hour Daily feed cap for minors
US
2026-09-23
Google, Meta and TikTok ask the Ninth Circuit to pause SB 976's feed restrictions after a judge called personalization a...
RESEARCH 12,000+ Inboxes compromised 50 Sites seized by court order
US
2026-09-23
The EvilTokens takedown disabled an AI phishing ring fast — a private-enforcement model that works, but still needs due-...
RESEARCH $1.93M Top capital tier $38,610 Entry-level capital tier
Kenya
2026-09-23
Kenya's draft payments law sets a $1.93M capital floor for e-money issuers and blocks debt from counting toward it, favo...
RESEARCH 78,000+ Couples married via Diia ~40% Share of marriages registered online
Ukraine
2026-09-23
Diia's Marriage Online service now cross-checks death records automatically, letting widowed Ukrainians remarry without ...
RESEARCH 18 days Public consultation window KES 5M or 1% Max data protection fine
Kenya
2026-09-23
The draft Payment System Bill would force M-PESA and banks to open customer data to fintechs on consent — but Kenya's da...
RESEARCH May 13–Sep 3 Consultation window ~CHF 5B 2024 bilateral trade volume
Switzerland
2026-09-23
A public consultation on the EFTA-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement closed September 3, sending a cross-border data fl...
RESEARCH $100B+ AI-focused investment held +54% YoY ADGM assets under management growth
UAE
2026-09-23
ADGM's AI-linked assets topped $100 billion in H1 2026, a stress test for the UAE's light-touch, still-consolidating AI ...
RESEARCH Jul 14, 2026 Garante opinion issued Sep 30, 2026 Policing decree in force
Italy
2026-09-23
Italy's Garante approved the AI Act policing decree only after demanding a ban on mass biometric collection and ex-post-...
RESEARCH 2022 Case filed $25,000 Max DMCA statutory damages
US
2026-09-23
The court held that Copilot and Codex can't violate DMCA §1202 by omitting information they never contained — but contra...
RESEARCH 6 hours Compliance deadline 22+ Posts ordered removed
Mexico
2026-09-22
INE gave PRI six hours to scrub anti-Morena posts using a defamation standard that lets speech disappear before judges w...
RESEARCH 10+ Posts required for eligibility 2009 Year of IT Blocking Rules
Global
2026-09-22
X's Under the Hood now names which country demanded a takedown, colliding with India's Rule 16 secrecy mandate for Secti...
RESEARCH $1.4B Broadband funding at stake 14 years Years of restriction
US
2026-09-22
A federal broadband grant's fine print would bar California from enforcing net neutrality, low-income pricing, and emerg...
RESEARCH 2 years Max advertising ban 200-700 quotas Deepfake offense fine range
Italy
2026-09-22
Decree 160/2026 lets Italian courts ban firms from advertising for up to two years if they profit from unlawful AI-gener...