BIS's Ownership-Based Chip Rule Makes Indonesia Collateral Damage in a Singapore Smuggling Case
Washington's ownership-based chip rule and Nvidia's buyer purge leave Indonesia exposed with no compliance path of its own.
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Thailand's New PDPA Certification Trades Mandates for Market Signals
Two Government Gazette notices create Thailand's first PDPA certification — a voluntary, 128-criteria seal rather than a...
Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Names the Real Risk: Agency Culture, Not Technology
FDPIC's 33rd annual report says federal management cultures downplay systemic risk in digital projects and let FOIA gaps...
Israel's Privacy Regulator Sets a Proportionality Test for Age Verification, Not a Mandate
Israel's PPA won't require age checks, but its draft rules bar biometric or ID scans unless a lower-risk method won't do...
Bangladesh's New Data Protection Law Skips Breach Notification and Lets the State Police Itself
The PDPA ties enforcement to a PM's Office authority with no clear duty to notify breach victims or power to probe gover...
Saudi Arabia's Cybercrime Law Now Reaches Tourists' Posts Made Before They Even Land
A joint Amnesty/ALQST report documents nine visitors jailed under vague 'public order' provisions, some for posts made b...
Manila's Social Media Bill Bundles a Reasonable Local-Presence Mandate With an Overbroad Disinformation Law
DICT wants platforms to open local offices and speed up scam takedowns by Q3 2026 — but a companion bill risks criminali...
Germany's FSM Makes Biometric ID the De Facto Standard for Age-Gated Content, Closing the Door on Lighter-Touch Verification
FSM's June 29 certification of Didit-AVS entrenches ID-plus-liveness checks as the compliance bar for German closed user...
Taiwan's MODA Targets Pre-Ticked Consent, Not Subscriptions Themselves, in E-Commerce Reform
MODA's draft rules would ban default auto-renewal boxes and require easy cancellation for Shopee VIP, Coupang WOW and mo...
California Retreats From Extending Age-Verification to Browsers, But the Device-Level Mandate Still Arrives in January
AB 1856's amendment drops a plan to pull browsers and websites into age-gating, easing EFF's objections ahead of AB 1043...
EDPB's New Web-Scraping Guidance Effectively Rules Out Consent, Forcing AI Labs Onto a Case-by-Case Legitimate-Interest Test
EDPB's July 8 guidelines say consent won't work for AI training scraping, pushing every EU-facing lab onto a documented,...
India's ₹1.9 Lakh Crore Chip and Phone Package Bets Bigger Without Auditing What the First Round Bought
Cabinet approves Semicon 2.0 and a new mobile manufacturing scheme worth ~$22B, extending an incentive model whose value...
At CyCon 2026, NATO's Legal Scholars Pitch a UN Treaty Washington Won't Sign as the Fix for Cyber Attribution
CCDCOE's Tallinn conference floated the UN Cybercrime Convention as an attribution tool, but its authoritarian signatori...