EU's AI Act Reset Fixes a Broken Deadline, But Opens a Compliance Gap for Early Movers
EU's Digital Omnibus delays AI Act high-risk rules to 2027-28 and gives the AI Office new fining powers, but early movers may dodge oversight for good.
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Canada Abandons Standalone AI Law, Bets Enforcement on Redefining 'Personal Information'
Bill C-36 folds automated-decision oversight into privacy law after AIDA died in 2025 — a narrower, more enforceable mod...
Taiwan's Influencer Tax Grace Period Ends, Shifting Enforcement from Guidance to Investigation
Taiwan's 5% business tax on influencer income is now enforceable; the real fight is over its cross-border 'digital footp...
Brazil's New Platform Rules Codify a Narrow Court Mandate — and Wisely Skip a Disinformation Dragnet
Decrees 12.975 and 12.976/2026 took full effect July 20, forcing proactive removal of seven categories of criminal conte...
Israel's Final DPO Guidance Closes a Real Loophole, But Its Aggregation Rule May Snare Small Vendors
The Privacy Protection Authority's July 2026 guidance forces genuine DPO independence and counts processor exposure acro...
India's New Telecom Rules Make Data Localization Absolute, With No Carve-Out for Backup or Disaster Recovery
DoT's 2026 authorisation rules bar all telecom data from leaving India, with no exception even for backups.
CJEU Ruling Redefines 'Control' So Broadly That Ranking Algorithms May Forfeit Hosting Immunity
A June 16 CJEU ruling on age verification and traffic alerts sets a control test broad enough to strip most recommender-...
FCC's Bid to Kill the 39% TV Ownership Cap Formalizes a Waiver Regime It Already Runs Ad Hoc
FCC votes Aug. 6 to scrap the national TV audience reach cap, catching up to a waiver process the Nexstar-Tegna deal alr...
Google's Court-Ordered App Store Opening Skips Canada, Exposing a Gap Ottawa Hasn't Filled
Google gave rival Android app stores US access on July 22 but no timeline for Canada, leaving a law clinic's Apple case ...
Turkey Moves to Fold YouTube News Channels Into Broadcast Licensing, With AI as the Enforcer
RTÜK plans 10-year licenses and automated hate-speech detection for YouTube news channels, extending broadcast-era gatek...
Switzerland Bets on Open-Weight Infrastructure, Not Regulation, to Win AI Sovereignty
Apertus 1.5's multimodal upgrade tests whether public open-source models can deliver sovereignty a light-touch AI regime...
EDPB Bars Belgian Regulator From Dismissing Mass-Filed GDPR Complaints as 'Abusive'
A binding EU ruling forces Belgium's DPA to hear noyb's VRT cookie complaint on the merits, narrowing how regulators can...
Russia's Expanded 'Foreign Agent' Law Trades Due Process for Faster Financial Surveillance
A June 2026 Duma law bars 'foreign agents' from social advertising, cuts inspection protections, and gives banks three d...