Turkey
age verification and online child safety
Turkey's token-based age check beats ID uploads, but a hard under-15 ban and bandwidth-throttling penalties put proportionality at risk.
2026-11-09
Ukraine
2026-11-09
Ukraine wants Europe to treat Diia as an AI testbed. Its value depends on publishing results, keeping registers decentra...
Estonia
2026-11-08
19,000+ e-Residency cards lose their digital certificates on 9 December 2026 because a chip's certification lapsed, not ...
Vietnam
2026-11-08
Vietnam's draft Data Security Law tiers data by risk, a sound idea, but stacking it on Decree 333's localisation duties ...
South Korea
2026-11-08
Two of three nameservers for South Korea's cyber security agency sat on a lapsed domain. Cheap routine checks would clos...
EU
2026-11-08
Norway's EUR 8.6M Xandr fine says each ad-tech joint controller must verify consent itself. The law is clear; the supply...
Global
2026-11-08
Access Now's 2026 exam report card shows Syria and Algeria backing off nationwide cuts while Tunisia and Jordan invent s...
Italy
2026-11-08
Italy's €822,500 spoofing penalties matter less than the filter behind them: 191 million fake-ID calls blocked without t...
UK
2026-11-08
The Home Office's 4 November response promises a statute, a single regulator and bias testing for police facial recognit...
India
2026-11-08
A Karnataka HC order refusing to quash IT Act cases says a public photo is not consent to misuse. DPDP's public-data exc...
South Korea
2026-11-08
A Seoul court kept the 423.6 billion won PIPC surcharge on Coupang in force but paused its corrective orders. Korea's pe...
Kenya
2026-11-08
Kenya's proposed duty of care protects children, but 10% global-turnover fines, executive jail terms and ID-linked age c...
Estonia
2026-11-07
Estonia's Riigikogu adopted Bill 897 SE on 23 September 2026. Its broader 'cyber incident' definition mirrors the EU's N...
UAE
2026-11-07
The UAE will bar AI agents from livelihood decisions and log every action. The rule has no named legal instrument or ind...
India
2026-11-07
RBI's reported 3 November advisory to banks tightens API controls against AI-driven fraud. The aim is sound, but the pro...
Taiwan
2026-11-07
Taiwan's Election Deepfake Report site speeds up requests, but it leaves platform cooperation voluntary and the narrow 2...
South Africa
2026-11-07
South Africa's draft numbering rules would force fingerprint or face checks on every SIM activation and swap, with thin ...
Germany
2026-11-07
Germany's new Produkthaftungsgesetz adds software makers and platform operators as defendants. It sits outside the DSA s...
South Korea
2026-11-07
Korea's publishers want consent for AI training. A narrow disclosure rule and a licensing market would serve them better...
Taiwan
2026-11-07
MODA's task force on advanced-AI cyber risk speeds information sharing under the Cyber Security Management Act. That is ...
UK
2026-11-07
The High Court upheld Ofcom's February 2026 information notices to Meta, TikTok and X. Proportionality is now the safegu...
Egypt
2026-11-07
Egypt's Masri Bel Kharig pilot could cut consular delays, but the 2020 data law's one-year grace period has just ended, ...
Philippines
2026-11-07
A 68GB exposure linked to DMW systems is a test of whether the Data Privacy Act can be applied proportionately before th...
Germany
2026-11-07
With 20,373 registrations against roughly 30,000 expected entities, the BSI is moving to hearings and audits. It should ...
Saudi Arabia
2026-11-07
SDAIA's October 2026 draft PDPL amendments would require controllers to store personal data in the Kingdom. The case for...