PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 1 year Sentence length 18+ Journalists jailed in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt anti-cybercrime law social media
A Cairo court gave the writer one year with hard labor for an article on prison conditions — despite Article 71's explicit ban on jailing people for publication.
2026-07-20
RESEARCH 86% Android share of Argentina mobile $5,000/yr Third-party store access fee
Argentina
2026-07-20
Google confirmed July 22 compliance with the Epic v. Google injunction, but the remedy and its commission cuts stop at t...
RESEARCH Jan 2027 Search data sharing deadline Jul 2027 Android AI interoperability deadline
EU
2026-07-20
EU orders Google to share anonymized search and Android AI data with rivals by 2027; Google warns the anonymization meth...
RESEARCH 7 On-device AI services approved ~2 years Regulatory review span
China
2026-07-20
CAC cleared Apple Intelligence on July 15, 2026 via Alibaba's Qwen — proving compliance works, but only after a costly, ...
RESEARCH $110B Deal value 12 States suing to block it
US
2026-07-20
12 states led by California sued to block the $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger a month after DOJ cleared it...
RESEARCH 20-30 African markets targeted ~400M Africans excluded from finance
Africa
2026-07-20
Equity Group, AfricaNenda and the Gates Foundation will roll out digital ID and payment rails across 20-30 African marke...
RESEARCH R$5,000 Moral damages awarded Jan. 21, 2025 Victim's notice to platform
Brazil
2026-07-20
A Mato Grosso do Sul appeals court held a platform liable for delayed removal of AI deepfake nudes under Article 21 of t...
RESEARCH 9 months Deadline to fix failures €50,000 Maximum fine at stake
France
2026-07-20
Arcom's first ministerial accessibility notice, over impots.gouv.fr, exposes a French state that regulates others more s...
RESEARCH $2.303M FY2026-27 cost recovery charge 15.3% Year-over-year reduction
Canada
2026-07-20
CRTC Order 2026-136 lowers the Online News Act cost-recovery charge to $2.303 million — while Google remains the only ma...
RESEARCH 99% Int'l traffic via cables ~90% Traffic funneled through Ceará
Brazil
2026-07-20
Anatel's extended cable consultation addresses genuine landing-point risk, but sovereignty framing risks duplicating Bra...
RESEARCH 80,000+ Flock devices nationwide ~9 months Distress Detection pilot length
US
2026-07-20
Flock ended its acoustic 'Distress Detection' pilot under EFF pressure, but the hardware and reactivation switch remain,...
RESEARCH 11 Vulnerable shims revoked ~4 months Disclosure-to- patch window
Global
2026-07-20
A four-month path from ESET's discovery to Microsoft's patch for a decade-old Secure Boot bypass argues against rigid re...
RESEARCH €158,000 Character.AI fine €15M OpenAI fine, 2024
Italy
2026-07-20
Garante's fine over weak minor safeguards is dwarfed by its €15M OpenAI penalty — proportionality, not just severity, wi...