Russia Expands Financial Surveillance of 'Foreign Agents' in a Law Its Own Enforcement Data Undercut
New Duma amendments add bank reporting and an ad ban to Russia's foreign agent rules, though 96% of 2025 designees got no foreign money.
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Ukraine's EU Bid Runs Into a Data Law Parliament Has Sat On for Four Years
Draft Law 8153 and its regulator bill 6177, both discussed at a Kyiv round table on July 23, 2026, remain unpassed as EU...
Brazil's Data Center Bill Localizes State Data, Not the Internet — For Now
A Chamber committee backed onshore storage only for defense and security data, but its 'data embassy' carve-out and unfi...
India's 2024 Shutdown Rules Added Paperwork, Not the Restraint Courts Ordered
As Zambia's #KeepItOn coalition warns against election-time blackouts, India's own reformed shutdown rules show procedur...
Germany's NIS2 Rollout Shows the Cost of Registration Without a Legal Deadline to Enforce It
BSI's July 31 letter to industry pressed 29,500 firms to register under the new BSIG, but only ~64% complied — exposing ...
Congress Documents How Chinese State Carriers Outlasted Their Own License Revocations
A bipartisan House report finds China Mobile, Unicom, and Telecom kept US infrastructure ties years after FCC bans, but ...
Ireland's EU Presidency Exposes an Unresolved Gap in Europe's Regulatory Architecture, Not a Conflict of Interest
EDPB's Dublin call for a cross-regulator information-sharing law matters more than the recusal campaign against Ireland'...
Netherlands' New Data Protection Chief Inherits an Unresolved Fight Over Police Facial Recognition
Geert Potjewijd, an ex-Big Tech lawyer, took over the Dutch DPA Aug 1; civil society wants him to police government surv...
Italy Finalizes Europe's First National AI Law, Testing Whether Sector Rules Can Sit Cleanly Atop the EU AI Act
Rome's Council of Ministers adopted two implementing decrees for Law 132/2025, setting AgID/ACN governance, police overs...
Brussels' First DMA Fine on Google Turns EU Tech Enforcement Into a Trade Weapon
The EU's €890M DMA fine on Google is defensible on the merits but its global-turnover math is now fueling a US Section 3...
HP India's ₹138.85 Crore Cartel Fine Shows India's Ex-Post Antitrust Toolkit Already Works
CCI's leniency-driven ruling against HP India for GeM bid-rigging argues against rushing a new ex-ante digital markets l...
EU's First Cyber Resilience Act Guidance Narrows Scope Confusion Weeks Before Reporting Deadline
Brussels' 80-page interpretive guidance on the Cyber Resilience Act arrives six weeks before mandatory vulnerability rep...
Polymarket's Alleged Astroturf Campaign Shows Disclosure Law Working as Designed, Not Failing
A D.C. consumer suit alleges Polymarket paid 800+ people $2.5M for undisclosed promotion — testing private enforcement o...