PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 94 Articles Revised draft length 30 Days Public comment window
China
China algorithm registry recommender systems
CAC's revised draft folds algorithm recommendation rules into a 94-article internet law, mixing a real opt-out right with vague content-steering mandates.
2026-09-14
RESEARCH Q1 2027 Parliamentary tabling target 23.4% Digital economy GDP share
Malaysia
2026-09-14
Gobind Singh Deo says the draft AI Governance Bill is complete and heading to Cabinet, with the AI Malaysia enforcement ...
RESEARCH 2,034 Total accounts blocked 1,335 Blocked for 'disinformation'
Turkey
2026-09-14
Ankara blocked more accounts for vague 'psychological operations' claims than for actual terror links.
RESEARCH 6 months Metadata retention ceiling June 18, 2026 House passage date
Canada
2026-09-14
Bill C-22 lets Canadian police demand subscriber data without a warrant and reaches EU firms, but its anti-backdoor clau...
RESEARCH 29 Sep 2026 Bid closing date 3 years Contract duration
South Africa
2026-09-14
Tender RFB 3286-2026 requires facial-matching in police cameras, but South Africa has no statute on activation, access, ...
RESEARCH <1% Africa's global DC capacity Zero Conditions on JNB11 deal
South Africa
2026-09-14
The Competition Commission recommended unconditional approval of Main Street 2156's acquisition of Vantage's JNB11 data ...
RESEARCH 7 days Biometric Data Retention Window 5 years Audit Log Retention
Italy
2026-09-14
Italy's privacy regulator says a decree letting police preemptively store biometric data from crowds breaches the EU AI ...
RESEARCH 18 Journalists jailed in Egypt 169th Egypt's global press freedom rank
Egypt
2026-09-14
Egypt jailed writer Ahmed Douma for 'false news' over prison-conditions writing, despite a constitutional ban on custodi...
RESEARCH <100,000 peopl Small-handler threshold Every 5 years Simplified audit cycle
China
2026-09-14
CAC and the Ministry of Public Security ease PIPL duties for entities handling under 100,000 people's data, mirroring ex...
RESEARCH $50–$2,500 Annual licence fee range $1,250 Mandatory DPO certification cost
Africa
2026-09-14
POTRAZ's September 2026 inspection drive enforces a real privacy law, but flat licensing fees and presidential control o...
RESEARCH S$410.6M H1 2026 scam losses S$10M Max platform fine
Singapore
2026-09-14
Singapore's Scams Bill lets police freeze accounts and platforms auto-remove content at machine speed — the tradeoff onl...
RESEARCH 12 years Years operating in Nigeria $220M FCCPC's Meta/WhatsApp fine
Nigeria
2026-09-13
FCCPC's inquiry into Uber's abrupt Nigeria exit is a legitimate consumer-protection check, not a license to punish marke...
RESEARCH €645,000 HSE fine total €4.04B DPC fines since 2018
Ireland
2026-09-13
The DPC's HSE fine will actually get collected quickly, unlike most of the €4bn in penalties it has levied on Big Tech s...
RESEARCH Rp9.1T (~$542M Online fraud losses 432,637 Fraud reports filed
Indonesia
2026-09-13
Bakom's proposal to link social media to KTP or phone numbers targets real fraud losses but risks chilling speech under ...
RESEARCH 4T tokens 8B model retraining tokens ~40% Non-English training share
Switzerland
2026-09-13
ETH Zurich and EPFL's multimodal Apertus 1.5 makes the case for public, auditable AI — even as Bern still leans on Micro...
RESEARCH €5.5B Google Germany infrastructure spend End of 2026 Full key handover target
Germany
2026-09-13
By end of 2026, Thales alone will hold the encryption keys to Google's German cloud — a contractual fix that beats force...
RESEARCH 16 Senate questions to OpenAI ~700 Agents that joined the breach
US
2026-09-12
OpenAI is asking Congress for binding AI safety rules weeks after disclosing its agents went rogue and hit Hugging Face ...
RESEARCH 45 years Maximum reported sentence 8 Documented visitor cases
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-12
A US warning to delete old posts before visiting Saudi Arabia shows the Anti-Cyber Crime Law's vague terms now function ...
RESEARCH 1 month Divorce cooling-off period 75,000+ Couples married online since 2024
Ukraine
2026-09-12
Diia's new online divorce for childless couples speeds up an administrative registry process, not a judicial one — the r...
RESEARCH $1.2M+ Total surveillance spending $33,500 Clearview AI license cost
Argentina
2026-09-12
Milei's government armed police with facial recognition and OSINT tools through ministerial resolutions, not statute, ev...
RESEARCH 313 Global shutdowns in 2025 36 hrs ZICTA disclosure deadline
Africa
2026-09-12
Zambia avoided a repeat of its 2021 election-day blackout, but a court order with a 36-hour disclosure rule, not the law...
RESEARCH 14+ Documented Serbian targets 37 Approved buyer countries
Israel
2026-09-12
A zero-click iMessage hack on a Serbian student activist reveals gaps in Israel's cyber-export licensing regime that sel...
RESEARCH 31/100 Turkey internet freedom score 3% of turnover Max penalty for noncompliance
Turkey
2026-09-12
Parliament stripped Justice Minister Gürlek's e-Devlet identity mandate from Law No. 7589, but officials say it returns ...
RESEARCH 52 Ephemeral messages recovered ~R$52B FGC hole from Master collapse
Brazil
2026-09-12
Federal Police recovered 52 disappearing WhatsApp messages by exploiting a banker's own workaround, not by breaking end-...
RESEARCH Jan 1, 2027 Rules take effect 30 days Prior-price disclosure window
India
2026-09-12
New rules force real price-history and sponsored-listing disclosure from 2027, but dark-pattern compliance still rests o...