PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 279–81 National Assembly vote Aug. 14, 2026 Ruling date
France
age verification
France's top court struck down the under-15 social media ban for chilling speech and leaving age-check data unprotected, not for regulating minors' access at all.
2026-08-27
RESEARCH 64% NIS2 companies registered Oct 17, 2024 Missed EU deadline
Germany
2026-08-27
Berlin deleted a KRITIS registration deadline via an unrelated family-law rider and denies any NIS2 registration gap des...
RESEARCH 15% Foreign streamer CPE rate C$25M Revenue threshold for obligations
Canada
2026-08-27
CRTC confirmed Aug. 26 it will push ahead on Cancon discoverability rules for streamers, despite their role in collapsin...
RESEARCH 20% of turnove Maximum surcharge for violations 3 entities Designated platform operators
Japan
2026-08-27
Coalition for App Fairness wants Japan's antitrust regulator to escalate against Apple and Google before the smartphone ...
RESEARCH 75%+ Authority-frau d call drop 400+ Monthly reports before rule
Switzerland
2026-08-26
BAKOM extended caller-ID spoofing blocks to mobile numbers on July 1, 2026, and fraud reports fell from 400+ to under 10...
RESEARCH 10M Users registered so far Rp9.5T Cybercrime losses, Jan-Apr 2026
Indonesia
2026-08-26
Komdigi's facial-recognition SIM rule has verified 10 million users toward a 291-million target, but Indonesia still has...
RESEARCH ~€5B/yr Digital levy revenue estimate ~€11B/yr Combined new levies total
EU
2026-08-26
MEPs want platforms to fund up to €11bn/year of the EU's 2028-2034 budget, but the Commission's own proposal skipped the...
RESEARCH 13 Pirate platforms initially blocked 5 business day ISP objection window
Canada
2026-08-26
A Federal Court order lets studios add pirate domains via 5-day ISP silence, with no judge reviewing each addition — a U...
RESEARCH Nov 30, 2026 AI committee report deadline 2.5% News bargaining ad-revenue levy
Australia
2026-08-26
Parliament's Aug. 20 moves — a deliberative AI committee and a fast-tracked media levy — show two opposite theories of h...
RESEARCH €98.6M Italy's App Store Fine Mar 2027 AGCM Probe Deadline
Italy
2026-08-26
The General Court's July 8 ruling forecloses Apple's challenge to its DMA status, leaving AGCM's national interoperabili...
RESEARCH 250+ Open FBI 764 investigations Ages 9-17 Victims targeted
South Africa
2026-08-26
A Malmesbury teen's arrest on FBI intelligence proves cross-border cooperation works — the bottleneck is resourcing SAPS...
RESEARCH Jul 24, 2026 Apertus 1.5 release date ~CHF 100M Alps supercomputer cost
Switzerland
2026-08-26
ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS shipped a fully open multimodal model, but the state still runs on Nvidia chips and a CHF 140M...
RESEARCH Aug 31, 2026 Chart takes effect #4 AI cover chart peak
Australia
2026-08-26
Australia's charts body excludes wholly AI-made music from Aug 31, but the harder line is unlicensed AI training, not AI...
RESEARCH End of 2026 EU wallet deadline May 6, 2025 Ministry took office
EU
2026-08-26
SPD says Wildberger's citizen chatbot papers over Germany's fragmented admin IT; the fix is real but shouldn't require y...
RESEARCH €1,715,600 Total fine imposed 365,000+ Customers affected
EU
2026-08-26
The Garante fined Wind Tre €1,715,600 for security failures in a social-engineering breach — but capped the penalty near...
RESEARCH 5 Governments in coalition <2% African languages with AI support
Nigeria
2026-08-26
Nigeria, Benin, Kenya, Namibia and Togo are scaling the open-source N-ATLAS model continentally, paired with a pledge to...
RESEARCH Jul 20, 2026 Joint note published €325M CNIL's record Google fine
France
2026-08-26
CNIL and CIANum's July 2026 note finds agentic AI strains GDPR minimization and Article 22, but declines to prescribe fi...
RESEARCH 24 hrs Standard data handover window 12 months Minimum log retention period
Vietnam
2026-08-26
Decree 333/2026 forces phone-number ID checks, 12-month log retention, and 24-hour data handovers on every internet plat...
RESEARCH 42.6% Teen over-dependence risk 22.7% General population rate
South Korea
2026-08-26
KMCC chair Kim Jong-cheol floated phased account and algorithm restrictions for minors, while citing Korea's failed 2011...
RESEARCH €231M New bank financing €900M PNRR migration funding
Italy
2026-08-26
A €231M bank refinancing for Polo Strategico Nazionale, layered atop €900M in PNRR migration funds, cements Italy's sing...
RESEARCH 3 Pluralism indicators set 0 of 3 Language-diver sity asks adopted
Ireland
2026-08-26
CnaM's Aug 2026 pluralism framework tracks viability, concentration and content diversity but sidesteps RTÉ's Irish-lang...
RESEARCH 74 of 130 Servers diverted to China $21M+ Alleged illicit profit
Taiwan
2026-08-26
Keelung prosecutors indicted nine people over 74 diverted Nvidia B300 servers, using fraud statutes because Taiwan's exp...
RESEARCH €824.99M Latest fine amount 2018-2022 Automated deactivation period
Netherlands
2026-08-26
The Dutch DPA's second-largest-ever GDPR fine punishes Uber for algorithmic driver deactivations — exposing privacy law'...
RESEARCH 3 months New registration trigger Jul 17, 2026 Deleted EU deadline
Germany
2026-08-26
A rider buried in an unrelated statute erased the KRITIS-Dachgesetz's July 17 deadline and pushed EU-mandated resilience...
RESEARCH 81.2% Card penetration rate 19,056 Private-sector leak reports
Japan
2026-08-26
Digital Agency's August 25 app merger turns one government credential into the private sector's identity-check rail — wi...