India
data protection and state surveillance
A proposal to give intelligence agencies and police API access to GST taxpayer data needs a legal basis, independent oversight and narrow scope first.
2026-10-05
India
2026-10-05
The Samantha Ruth Prabhu order protects a real victim, but a plaintiff's own notice as a takedown trigger needs procedur...
US
2026-10-05
A federal judge blocked Utah's VPN rule as likely unconstitutional because it imposes strict liability for an impossible...
Saudi Arabia
2026-10-05
Access Now logged one Saudi shutdown in 2025 among 313 worldwide. The Kingdom's tools are licensing conditions and filte...
Nigeria
2026-10-05
Platforms had to file Community Rules with the NCC by Aug 13, 2026. The goals are defensible, but the process lacks stat...
Bangladesh
2026-10-05
A draft that jails 'unverified information' for up to 10 years and widens executive blocking powers repeats the mistakes...
Germany
2026-10-05
Berlin's expert commission proposes either an age-13 floor with age verification or risk-based limits on specific featur...
Brazil
2026-10-05
By 5-2 the TSE ruled that only synthetic content realistic enough to pass as a real recording is an illicit deepfake, sp...
UK
2026-10-05
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill covers MSPs and data centres, while the PSTI Act covers consumer devices. Connect...
US
2026-10-05
A California court again dismissed El Faro journalists' Pegasus suit against NSO Group, this time for lack of personal j...
EU
2026-10-05
Attackers used a Danish firm's legitimate access to the CPR register to expose 8.8 million people, and the weak point wa...
Indonesia
2026-10-05
Three years after Permendag 31/2023, Jakarta is curating local products on the merged TikTok–Tokopedia entity while KPPU...
Australia
2026-10-05
WA Police scanned 130,000+ faces in a week with no dedicated law behind the trial; narrow, published safeguards would pr...
Switzerland
2026-10-05
Swiss AI Weeks ended Oct 4 while the Convention draft is still due by end-2026. Bern's sector-specific path beats an AI ...
Pakistan
2026-10-05
The PTA told the Islamabad High Court that no law bars under-16s from social media, and that its blocking powers are 'li...
Argentina
2026-10-05
Decree 742/2026 requires human supervision and an AI registry in Buenos Aires's provincial government, while Congress st...
Brazil
2026-10-05
Anatel's proposed CPF line-block, modeled on the Central Bank's BC Protege+, targets subscription fraud with a free opt-...
US
2026-10-05
Hawley's 10-day retention bill and the Sanders–Merkley–Ocasio-Cortez ban target the same cameras. Only the first fits ho...
US
2026-10-05
H.R. 10364 lets courts designate foreign 'piracy sites' without the accused appearing, then makes ISPs, DNS providers an...
Africa
2026-10-05
African leaders told the UN Security Council they want to co-write AI safety rules. Zimbabwe's social media monitoring s...
China
2026-10-05
China's August 2026 draft for large personal-information processors extends a nationality-and-residency test to banks, h...
US
2026-10-05
The FCC opened 1,050 MHz at 12.7 and 42 GHz to satellite broadband. The order resolves a band once eyed for 5G and raise...
Germany
2026-10-05
Germany closed its four-year Apple ATT case with binding commitments instead of penalties. Cheaper to enforce, and less ...
UAE
2026-10-05
Nvidia's planned free model splits Abu Dhabi's TII and G42 over building versus adopting AI. Open weights and light-touc...
Global
2026-10-05
Reddit is closing RSS and its public API to stop AI scrapers, but researchers, moderators and small developers are beari...