PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH ~90M Russian Telegram users ~5% Non-VPN Telegram availability
Russia
platform regulation
The FSB's case against Pavel Durov dresses up a years-long censorship campaign as counterterrorism, and Russia's own officials keep using the app it wants gone.
2026-07-29
RESEARCH NT$700M Smuggling case value NT$3M Max fine, China exports
Taiwan
2026-07-29
A fourth arrest in Taiwan's widening Nvidia chip-smuggling probe exposes a law that fines China exports but jails smuggl...
RESEARCH 15 days Real-time ID authorization cap 7 days Post-event data retention limit
Italy
2026-07-29
The Garante approved Italy's AI Act enforcement decree but demands biometric scans stay targeted and after-the-fact, not...
RESEARCH 100,000 Sovereign Compute Unit Target $20-30B+ Estimated Infrastructure Cost
Israel
2026-07-29
Israel's June 2026 national AI plan pairs a 100,000-GPU buildout with continued reliance on 2023-era soft law, not statu...
RESEARCH ~400M Reel views before removal 4 Platforms summoned Aug 3
India
2026-07-29
A briefly mislabeled removal of a Modi video has triggered a summons to Meta's global policy chief and a parliamentary h...
RESEARCH ~3.5 months Bill-to-law timeline ≤2 years Implementation window
Japan
2026-07-29
Japan's Diet enacted APPI amendments creating administrative fines and letting firms use personal data, including sensit...
RESEARCH <50% Municipalities registered ~500,000 Wrongful fines per year
Netherlands
2026-07-29
The AP is checking whether municipalities logged parking scan cars in the algorithm register — a voluntary list that doe...
RESEARCH 30 days Royal assent to in-force 3 New offences created
Canada
2026-07-29
Ottawa kept Attorney General consent for old hate propaganda charges, but the new offences the Combatting Hate Act creat...
RESEARCH 73 Members backing ECA text 67 (~70%) Implementing via interim rules
Global
2026-07-29
73 WTO members back a new digital trade agreement that skips the hardest fight: whether governments can wall off data at...
RESEARCH ~30M National Property IDs Issued <10% Real Estate Formally Registered
Egypt
2026-07-29
A World Bank paper finds Egypt has digitally tagged nearly every property while under a tenth carry actual legal title.
RESEARCH RM100,000 Max fine for refusal 8,014 Online fraud charges, Jan-May 2026
Malaysia
2026-07-29
Section 36 of Malaysia's Cybercrimes Bill 2026 compels passwords and decryption codes with no judicial pre-authorisation...
RESEARCH $2.303M FY2026-27 net CRTC bill $2.71M Prior year charge
Canada
2026-07-29
Order 2026-136 bills Google $2.303M for FY2026-27 enforcement costs, stacked on its $100M/year deal, while Meta pays not...
RESEARCH NT$165.2M Cooking oil scandal fine 5 years PDPA criminal penalty ceiling
Taiwan
2026-07-29
Taipei is probing an AI voice clone of President Lai under existing forgery and privacy law, not new platform rules — a ...