Zimbabwe's Data-Protection Inspections Run Through a Regulator That Isn't Independent
POTRAZ's Sept. 1 compliance sweep enforces a real privacy law, but the same body regulates telecoms and answers to a presidentially appointed board.
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POTRAZ's Sept. 1 compliance sweep enforces a real privacy law, but the same body regulates telecoms and answers to a presidentially appointed board.
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Minister Edwin Tong's Aug 4 reply shows Singapore policing AI evidence through costs orders and judicial training, not f...
A ~22.5-hour span of disruptions to Estonia's Competition Authority, Prosecutor's Office and Prison Service sites was a ...
ODPC's World Bank-funded ISO 9001 system formalizes Kenya's shift from registration-and-guidance to audit-based data pro...
Flock cut US plate-data retention after backlash; Delhi's ANPR and facial-recognition network expands with no retention ...
The Competition Commission wants Audatex fined 10% of revenue for charging small repair shops up to 50% more — a case th...
A GPT-4 trial across 1,559 Pakistani judges cut backlogs 6.3%, but courts still have no rule for who answers when AI-ass...
Brazil's telecom regulator extended its IoT/M2M market review to Sept. 13 and shelved a roaming rule that could fine sta...
UK's PSR wants to force fintechs into Confirmation of Payee; India's NPCI skipped the voluntary phase entirely — with fr...
India's Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Delhi Police's live facial recognition at protests — a gap Estonia's EU A...
ANATEL's zero-tolerance pact with seven e-commerce giants targets prison phone smuggling without a binding resolution or...
Dublin scrapped its Microsoft services framework after a bidder complaint, but opposition TDs are already using Germany'...
A losing rejection vote kept EU chat-scanning legal to April 2028 by procedural default, ahead of September's fight over...
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Section 230 denials aren't immediately appealable, forcing platforms through full litigation...
The SAPS Amendment Bill tightens integrity testing and municipal policing, but digital forensics and cybercrime capacity...
The MCMC (Amendment) Bill 2026 fixes a real conflict-of-interest gap while quietly expanding Section 16 authority over d...
A ransomware hit on the pipeline carrying 75% of Vaca Muerta's crude surfaced via a stock filing, exposing a gap in Arge...