PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 1% Maximum fine ceiling 30 days Platform response deadline
France
France SREN digital regulation law
The Balanant bill lets Arcom compel usage data, set remuneration and fine up to 1% of turnover. The data duty is defensible; open-ended price-setting is the risk.
2026-10-27
RESEARCH 16 Proposed minimum account age 18 months Officials' regulator setup estimate
Canada
2026-10-27
Bill C-34 sets a ban at 16 and an exemption route, but leaves age checks, exemption criteria and a regulator's launch da...
RESEARCH 5M+ Total app users 3.6M Users in Feb 2026
France
2026-10-27
France's optional ID app passed 5 million users by being useful on trains and at airports. The test is whether age check...
RESEARCH 3 Roles with compliance rules May 2025 GENAI platform launch
Japan
2026-10-27
Japan's Digital Agency has published role-based rules for government AI agents with its AI Safety Institute, offering a ...
RESEARCH 500+ AI companies since 2024 AED 1B+ Private capital raised
UAE
2026-10-27
Dubai's AI Campus passed 500 companies two years early. The UAE's light-touch approach holds only if its patchwork of AI...
RESEARCH ~9 Months from broadcast to notice 25 Designated very large platforms
France
2026-10-27
France's regulator put Europe 1 on notice over a nine-month-old remark. The case shows how much discretion national spee...
RESEARCH 37.5M Active 5G SIM cards 44% Share of all SIMs
France
2026-10-27
ARCEP counts 37.5M active 5G SIMs, 44% of the base. No new French identity rule follows, and the Karnataka SIM-fraud ord...
RESEARCH 10 Review petitions dismissed 3 years Maximum jail for offering
India
2026-10-27
With ten review petitions dismissed on 15 October 2026, the May ruling stands and the central money-game ban rests on a ...
RESEARCH 8 months Launch delay ~30% Paper stamp fee rise
Ukraine
2026-10-27
Kyiv pushed its electronic excise-stamp system from 1 Nov 2026 to 1 July 2027. Postponing was the right call, but paper ...
RESEARCH A$89 Anko glasses price 55,000+ Petition signatures
Australia
2026-10-27
The OAIC's investigation of the HeyCyan app maker shows the Privacy Act already has tools for camera wearables. The weak...
RESEARCH 162.8B won KFTC fine on Coupang 64,250+ Products allegedly ranked on top
South Korea
2026-10-27
The KFTC's new platform-case bureau is widely seen as targeting Coupang while the 2024 search-ranking fine is still unre...
RESEARCH 8 Months of suspension 60,000% Proton VPN download surge
Africa
2026-10-27
Gabon lifted its eight-month platform suspension on 24 October, but real-ID registration and a 2026 ordinance may entren...
RESEARCH 0 Live Meta SMS designations 5 Google publisher obligations
UK
2026-10-27
Meta's crawl-rights terms test whether the UK's digital markets regime can act before a platform is designated. Targeted...
RESEARCH Rs 13.97 cr Amount allegedly moved 187 Unauthorised transfers
India
2026-10-26
A Rs 13.97 crore loss via 187 transfers, and a bank-versus-IFTAS dispute over where the breach happened, test India's ex...
RESEARCH Rs 1 lakh App licence entry fee Rs 1 lakh Annual fee per channel
India
2026-10-26
TRAI's 26 October 2026 ALTD recommendations would license FAST and live-TV apps under the Telecom Act 2023, bar internet...
RESEARCH R8M Tier 1 e-money capital R2M Payment initiation capital
South Africa
2026-10-26
The SARB is moving fintechs from bank sponsorship to direct authorisation. Proportionate capital and security duties wil...
RESEARCH 14,530+ Cameras compromised in campaign 1,923 Cameras with persistent backdoor
Ukraine
2026-10-26
CERT-UA says attackers are abusing Dahua's Easy4IP cloud relay in Ukraine. The flaw is unnecessary remote reachability, ...
RESEARCH 10 years NGSO licence term 3,469 Satellite subscribers, Jan 2026
Bangladesh
2026-10-26
Bangladesh became South Asia's first Starlink direct-to-cell market via Banglalink; the 2025 NGSO rulebook worked, but d...
RESEARCH ~10 AI services in risky use 2 Aug 2026 AI Act became applicable
EU
2026-10-26
Sweden's Government Offices blocked consumer AI chatbots and approved Copilot. The lesson for governments is to fix proc...
RESEARCH 11 Pages of Cybernetica feedback 1 Agents per registered person
Estonia
2026-10-26
Estonia's draft AI agent registry is optional and cheap, but critics say it skips authentication and liability, the part...
RESEARCH 26 Reddit posts blocked 18 Subreddits affected
India
2026-10-26
India's blocking of 26 Reddit posts on the China border, under an order with no stated legal basis, fails the safeguards...
RESEARCH $2,500 Georgia fine per violation Under 14 Florida account ban below
US
2026-10-26
Vacating the injunctions against HB 3 and SB 351 lets two states enforce account bans and age checks before courts have ...
RESEARCH 24 hours Label deadline after finding 3 in 6 mo Requests before localisation order
Vietnam
2026-10-26
Decree 328 and Decree 333 give Hanoi a workable toolkit against online harms, but vague definitions and escalating penal...
RESEARCH 30 African shutdowns in 2025 8 Tanzania shutdowns in 2025
Africa
2026-10-26
Access Now's new testimony research shows shutdowns in Sudan, Tigray and Annobón outlast official 'restoration', exposin...
RESEARCH 10 ISM projects approved ₹1.60 lakh cr Cumulative ISM investment
India
2026-10-26
Three stalled US chip export bills would extend to India's data centres and fabs; a 180-day verification clock argues fo...