PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 24 hours Label deadline after finding 3 in 6 mo Requests before localisation order
Vietnam
Vietnam data localisation cybersecurity decree
Decree 328 and Decree 333 give Hanoi a workable toolkit against online harms, but vague definitions and escalating penalties on foreign platforms invite overreach.
2026-10-26
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...
RESEARCH 2 CLOUD Act executive agreements listed 2018 CLOUD Act enacted
Malaysia
2026-10-26
Malaysia's tiered cloud rules and government-held keys address CLOUD Act exposure; a sovereign AI cloud should stay conf...
RESEARCH 90 Days to draft strategy 81% Pilot favourable rating
Argentina
2026-10-26
Resolución 469/2026 sets up a no-cost planning table for AI in the courts. It avoids a heavy AI statute, but its 90-day ...
RESEARCH 7 of 8 High-risk platforms committed 16 Minimum account age
Indonesia
2026-10-26
Komdigi says AI mini-dramas funnel viewers to unregistered paid apps. Targeted enforcement against those apps beats exte...
RESEARCH 319 Facilities named in register 166 Anonymous register entries
Germany
2026-10-26
Berlin plans to loosen EnEfG efficiency rules just as NIS2 widens oversight of data centres; each regime needs its own c...
RESEARCH 9.2 CVSS v4.0 severity ~70% Share of identifiable sites on PHP
US
2026-10-26
Two AI-assisted PHP discoveries, a leaked embargo and a stalled 2024 fix show disclosure rules need paid maintainers, no...
RESEARCH 8 Intermediate CAs distrusted ~255 Max guesses to recover key
India
2026-10-26
Eight eMudhra CA keys were guessable in under 256 tries. Browsers acted within days, but India's CCA has still not expla...
RESEARCH 5 years Article 6 max prison SAR 3M Article 6 max fine
Saudi Arabia
2026-10-26
A US advisory reportedly warns of 45-year terms for posts. The statute's own ceiling is five years, and the gap is the p...
RESEARCH 25 Sep 2026 Date collection began 0 New taxes or VAT rates
Indonesia
2026-10-26
Indonesia's SPP-TDLN collects existing VAT on foreign digital purchases through banks, adding no new tax and avoiding a ...
RESEARCH 6% Maximum DSA fine 45M+ Monthly EU users
Netherlands
2026-10-25
The Commission, not Amsterdam's ACM, leads the Booking.com DSA case, and the split is a reasonable one if the ACM's role...
RESEARCH 5 years Requested exemption term >R700bn Combined JSE value of majors
Africa
2026-10-25
ACT's five-year request to coordinate rural tower and duct planning tests whether competition law can allow efficiency w...
RESEARCH 118 Columns cited as propaganda 82 Jailed pending trial
Turkey
2026-10-25
An Istanbul court cited 118 columns as 'LGBT propaganda' to block T24. Strasbourg's case law on blocking says orders lik...
RESEARCH 87% AI use cases internal Up to 2 Priorities per three years
EU
2026-10-25
ESMA's 2027 supervisory priority on AI and tokenisation is a measured, evidence-first approach. Its value depends on sta...
RESEARCH 37% Fear data misuse 29% Less willing to protest
EU
2026-10-25
Italy's reported police facial-recognition decree bans scraping and requires deletion and human review. Its legitimacy w...
RESEARCH 99% UK international data via subsea cables 14 years Maximum sentence, deliberate damage
UK
2026-10-25
The UK's cable-protection white paper rightly replaces an 1885 law, but its direction powers and operator penalties need...
RESEARCH 3 Conditions for lawful suspension 4 Operators asked to prepare
France
2026-10-25
A 22 October letter asked four operators to prepare DNS blocks of TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram. Operators asked for a ...
RESEARCH CHF 730M Total programme funding ~10% Households without modern broadband
Switzerland
2026-10-25
Bern's CHF 730 million broadband bill wisely limits aid to market gaps and mandates open access, but making cantons pay ...
RESEARCH 14 years UK proposed maximum sentence 10 years Australia zone breach maximum
Australia
2026-10-25
Google's Bosun application at Fannie Bay shows Darwin becoming a cable hub. Open landing stations and diverse routes wil...
RESEARCH 53 People arrested 8 Teenagers among arrested
Malaysia
2026-10-25
Police-MCMC forensic cooperation produced 53 arrests; the under-16 account rule bolted onto it carries privacy and propo...
RESEARCH 24 hrs Ransom payment report deadline 72 hrs Covered incident report deadline
US
2026-10-25
A negotiator's arrest in a sealed extortion case shows the gap in oversight, but existing law and CIRCIA reporting fit t...
RESEARCH 8 States suing OpenAI 7 Firms in FTC chatbot inquiry
US
2026-10-25
Eight states sued OpenAI over ChatGPT and minors. The deception claims are conventional and credible; the demand to bar ...
RESEARCH ~1,000 Fake X accounts 222 Constituencies profiled
Malaysia
2026-10-25
Anthropic's Malaysia disclosure shows takedown-era law targets posts, not coordinated networks. Transparency duties woul...
RESEARCH 161 km/h Interceptor link-loss speed ~400 km/h Jet Shahed cruise speed
Ukraine
2026-10-25
A speed limit that blinded interceptor drones exposes the cost of relying on one foreign-controlled satellite network, e...