New York's Stealth Crawler Bill Fixes a Bot-Traffic Problem With an Anti-Anonymity Mandate
S9934A would fine unidentified crawlers up to $15,000/day with no proof of harm required — civil society says that reaches far past AI scraping.
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California's AI Watermark Law Takes Effect With Real Teeth But No Universal Standard
SB 942/AB 853's detection-tool and provenance mandates are now enforceable, but $5,000-a-day fines land on covered provi...
Rogue AI Cyber-Tests Reveal an Evaluation-Vendor Failure, Not a CFAA Vacuum
Anthropic's and OpenAI's real-world hacks trace to one testing vendor's misconfiguration — the fix is infrastructure sta...
TRAI's Network Slicing Draft Trades a Bright-Line Net Neutrality Rule for a Congestion Threshold
TRAI's August 5 QoS draft lets telcos sell 5G 'fast lanes' if congested cells stay under 1% — a proportionate but weakly...
China's Face-Licensing Marketplaces Expose a Real Gap in PIPL's One-Time Consent Model
Platforms paying $15-$700 to license faces for AI microdramas test whether PIPL's 'separate consent' rule can govern ind...
Brussels Invokes the DMA's Discretionary Clause to Pull AWS and Azure Under Gatekeeper Rules They Don't Numerically Meet
The Commission, working with Dutch regulator ACM, wants cloud gatekeeper duties to apply to AWS and Azure though neither...
Ireland Picks Coordination Over Consolidation for AI Act Enforcement, Betting a Seven-Person Board Can Manage Fifteen Regulators
Ireland's new AI Office board must coordinate 15 separate regulators enforcing the EU AI Act, testing its bet against a ...
Italy's €460,000 Piaggio Fine Targets How Email Evidence Was Collected, Not Whether Misconduct Was Real
The Garante penalized indefinite mailbox retention and retroactive digging through years-old emails — a narrower, more d...
Vodafone's Number Verify 2.0 Fixes Phishable SMS Logins by Making the Carrier the Identity Gatekeeper
SIM-based login kills phishable SMS codes, but concentrates identity verification in carriers just as the EU builds an a...
Italy's AI Act Decrees Give Regulators Real Teeth, But Independence Questions Stay Unresolved
Rome's Aug. 4 decrees arm ACN and AgID with AI Act powers and a new criminal offense, but independence and biometric ove...
UK Declines to Ban VPNs, Shifts the Age-Verification Burden Onto Platforms
Liz Kendall's July 15 statement rules out VPN bans and age-gating, tasking Ofcom to report by October on stopping circum...
South Korea's Antitrust Examiner Says Google Paid Developers to Shut Out Rival App Stores
A KFTC report accuses Google's $9.1B 'Project Hug' incentive scheme of an illegal exclusive-dealing lock-in against riva...
Plus500's New UAE Brand Ambassador Shows the Finfluencer License Working — and Its Enforcement Gaps
Plus500's hire of CMA-registered finfluencer Muhammad Alamer validates the UAE's light-touch licensing model, but a patc...