PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH $10,000 Max penalty per vehicle 1,593 Waymo stops in blackout
US
autonomous vehicle data policy
California's robotaxi law mandates fleet-failure notices to cities and fines for 30-minute blockages; the data feed is sound, the staffing mandates less so.
2026-10-03
RESEARCH 294 km Cable length 3 Subsea cables to Matsu
Taiwan
2026-10-03
MODA's Taiwan-Matsu No. 4 cable adds a third subsea route to Matsu. Layered, state-backed redundancy beats mandates, if ...
RESEARCH 55M+ Valid US visa holders ~1M UAW active and retired members
US
2026-10-03
Judge Hellerstein let unions' First Amendment challenge to AI-assisted social media monitoring of visa and green-card ho...
RESEARCH 50,000+ ISP subscriber threshold $100M+ DNS resolver revenue threshold
US
2026-10-03
Tillis and Lofgren's bill spares VPNs and adds process, but still lets courts order ISPs and DNS resolvers to block whol...
RESEARCH 17M Accounts targeted by end-2026 5,159 E-fraud cases in 2025
Malaysia
2026-10-03
Digital ID is reaching Malaysians faster than small businesses. Budget 2027 should cut adoption costs, not mandate uptak...
RESEARCH ₩1.13T Voice-phishing losses (Nov 2025) 21,588 Reported phishing incidents
South Korea
2026-10-03
Korea's July 2026 phone-activation rules and the carriers' PASS QR campaign show the case for optional, narrowly scoped ...
RESEARCH 7 Agencies issuing Interim Measures 1 Sep 2025 Labeling rules in force
China
2026-10-03
Beijing rejected Amodei's slowdown call, but its own AI rules tie 'safety' to state-defined content duties, which limits...
RESEARCH 60 SID years in operation 75-11 FICA vote in favour
Singapore
2026-10-02
SID's 60th anniversary release says nothing on accountability, while Singapore's digital-control laws route challenges t...
RESEARCH 15 Digital majority age 100,000 Maximum fine (SMVM)
Argentina
2026-10-02
Deputy Basualdo's under-15 social media bill copies France's age line but not its enforcement design. The regulator is u...
RESEARCH 20% Surcharge for non-compliance 30% Surcharge for repeat violations
Japan
2026-10-02
Japan's app developers say Apple and Google fees still block alternative stores and payments. The JFTC now has to show a...
RESEARCH €890M Google DMA fines 100% Threatened tariff rate
Global
2026-10-02
Washington reportedly plans a Section 301 probe of EU digital rules and four national digital services taxes. History su...
RESEARCH €231M PSN refinancing size €300M PNRR migration funds offered
Italy
2026-10-02
PSN's €231 million refinancing shows Italy's EU-controlled government cloud has commercial backing. Ordinary data does n...
RESEARCH 1/3 EU-reserved commercial share May 2027 Current licences expire
Germany
2026-10-02
Deutsche Telekom and three rivals are reportedly eyeing the EU's reserved 2 GHz satellite slice. Reserved spectrum won't...
RESEARCH 4 Drones inhibited by Mexico ~800 Mexican troops deployed
Mexico
2026-10-02
Operation Águila Alta disabled four unarmed drones near Tijuana, but jamming authority sits outside the civil-aviation f...
RESEARCH 21 days Advance notice for new slices 80% Peak-hour PRB utilisation cap
India
2026-10-02
At TRAI's 30 September open house, net neutrality advocates and telcos split over 5G slicing. The 2018 licence rules alr...
RESEARCH 30+ Petitions decided together 7 Factors in de-indexing test
India
2026-10-02
A Delhi HC division bench says May's de-indexing order binds search engines and legal databases, not Facebook. That is t...
RESEARCH ~104 Days from patch to breach 2-3 TB Data claimed stolen
US
2026-10-02
ShinyHunters says it breached FBIjobs.gov via PeopleSoft months after a patch existed. The lesson is faster remediation ...
RESEARCH €825M Fine amount ~1.85% Share of 2025 turnover
Netherlands
2026-10-02
The Dutch DPA's record Article 22 fine against Uber defends human review of life-altering automated decisions, but its s...
RESEARCH 30% Maximum mandated sell-down ~41% IHS share of towers
Nigeria
2026-10-02
FCCPC's conditional approval of MTN's $6.2B IHS deal requires a 30% Nigerian sell-down, but ownership dilution alone won...
RESEARCH 12 of 32 Satellites at sustainable orbit ~90 min Daily coverage over Ukraine
Ukraine
2026-10-02
Only 12 of 32 Rassvet satellites sit at sustainable altitudes, while Ukraine's terminal whitelist cut Russian Starlink u...
RESEARCH Oct 1, 2026 Law start date 4 Strategic pillars in law
Japan
2026-10-02
Japan's Active Cyber Defense Act takes effect with metadata-only monitoring; its Article 21 safeguards will be tested by...
RESEARCH 0 AI mentions in Perpres 32/2024 2014 Age of current Copyright Law
Indonesia
2026-10-02
Indonesia's copyright rewrite would be Southeast Asia's first to cover AI. Its payment duty for training is defensible; ...
RESEARCH 14,000+ Apps and bots registered $1M Migration fund
Global
2026-10-02
Reddit is ending RSS and its free public API to stop AI scraping. The cost lands on moderators, readers and researchers,...
RESEARCH 6 Companies signing accord 19 Groups opposing preemptive bill
US
2026-10-02
Six AI firms signed a voluntary safety pledge on Sept. 29, 2026. With no penalties, disclosure or enforcement role, its ...
RESEARCH 10 National security standards 72 hrs Incident reporting window
US
2026-10-02
The FCC's new SLTE blanket license and Team Telecom exemption cut real friction, but compliance burdens for consortia an...