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Ninth Circuit Shuts Down the DMCA Shortcut for AI Copyright Suits, Leaves the Real Claims Standing

The Ninth Circuit ruled AI code output lacking attribution isn't the same as stripping it, closing a $9B damages theory against Copilot but not the underlying case.

2026-09-27

US 2026-09-27

Fifth Circuit's New Transmission Test Keeps Embedding Legal — But Breaks With the Ninth Circuit

The court ditched the 20-year-old server test for a transmission-based rule, reaching the same pro-linking result but op...

US 2026-09-27

Montana's Deepfake Election Law Falls Because It Only Punished Deepfakes That Hurt Candidates

A federal judge found Montana's SB 25 unconstitutional for policing anti-candidate AI deepfakes while leaving flattering...

Switzerland 2026-09-27

Swiss Court Draws a Bright Line Between Debt Enforcement and Digital Shaming

The Federal Administrative Court upheld an FDPIC order against a debtor-naming website, ordering Inkasso-Team AG to pay ...

South Africa 2026-09-27

Cape Town's Equinix Freeze Shows Data Centres Were Never Zoned as Data Centres

A legal appeal over undisclosed water and power use suspended Cape Town's biggest data centre approval, exposing plannin...

Canada 2026-09-27

Canada's License Plate Camera Boom Is Outrunning Its Own Privacy Rules

Ottawa, Sudbury and Brampton are building dense ALPR networks with no federal statute and no shared retention standard g...

Singapore 2026-09-27

Bitget's $387 Million Breach Shows 'Singapore-Based' Crypto Exchanges Often Sit Outside Singapore's Rules

Bitget lost $387.5M to alleged North Korean hackers while holding no MAS licence — a regulatory gap that is policy, not ...

China 2026-09-27

China's AI Content Crackdown Shows the Limits of Enforcement Without Due Process

CAC's removal of 5.61M AI posts and penalties on 49,000 accounts enforces real transparency rules, but with no appeal pr...

Japan 2026-09-26

Japan Adds Deepfake Investment Scams to Platform Takedown Rules — Via Guidelines, Not New Law

MIC's Aug. 6 revision adds deepfake investment scams to takedown guidance amid record fraud losses — narrow, but set by ...

EU 2026-09-26

A Supreme Court Ruling on FTC Independence Puts the EU-US Data Deal's Legal Foundation in Question

EDPB asks Brussels to assess whether Trump v. Slaughter's removal of FTC commissioner protections undermines the EU-US D...

China 2026-09-26

China's Trade Union Federation Moves to Put Gig Algorithms on the Bargaining Table, But It Still Owns Both Sides of the Table

ACFTU aims to push 18 platforms into algorithm-negotiation deals covering 25 million gig workers by year-end, a real des...

US 2026-09-26

A $1.4 Billion Broadband Grant Would Bar California From Enforcing Its Own Net Neutrality Law for 14 Years

NTIA's BEAD award to California conditions the money on the state not enforcing net neutrality or affordability rules fo...

UAE 2026-09-26

The UAE Is Racing to Automate Half Its Government Before It Decides Who Answers When AI Gets a Decision Wrong

UAE's Agentic AI committee built a design guide for AI-run public services but has yet to publish how liability or appea...

EU 2026-09-26

Brussels Moves From AI Act Paperwork to Enforcement, and the First Test Is Frontier-Model Safety

The EU sent formal information requests to 30+ AI providers on Sept 1, its first real use of AI Act investigative powers...

Estonia 2026-09-26

Estonia's Record e-Residency Growth Shows Digital-First Government Scales — Its Move to Remote Biometrics Will Test Whether Security Scales With It

E-residents formed 4,200+ Estonian companies in 2026 as the state prepares to swap the physical ID card for remote biome...

US 2026-09-26

Kiteworks' Six-Hour Precautionary Shutdown Sets a Higher Bar for Zero-Day Disclosure

Kiteworks told customers to power down over an unconfirmed federal tip — an unusually transparent move in a sector with ...

Kenya 2026-09-26

Kenya's Draft 'Sensitive Data' Rule for Political and Union Data Is Narrower Than the Election-Year Framing Suggests

ODPC's Section 47 notice adds political affiliation and union membership as sensitive data — but only for data crossing ...

Turkey 2026-09-26

Turkey's Emergency Blocking Law, Built for Narrow Cases, Is Now Silencing Its Own Critics at Scale

A law professor who won Turkey's 2014 Twitter case lost his own X account this week, one of hundreds blocked under a 'na...

US 2026-09-26

The Labcorp Settlement Shows State AGs, Not Federal Regulators, Are Writing America's Vendor-Security Rules

44 states fined Labcorp $2.3M over the 2019 AMCA breach, mandating vendor oversight reforms that federal law never requi...

US 2026-09-25

Snap's Bid to Escape Kansas State Court Handed Plaintiffs a State-Actor Blueprint

A federal judge's remand of Kansas's consumer-protection suit shows why leaning on government ties to dodge state court ...

UK 2026-09-25

TikTok's Surrendered Appeal Confirms a Narrow Reading of 'Artistic Purposes' — and Clears the Runway for the Harder Case on Teen Algorithms

TikTok has dropped its appeals of the ICO's 2023 £12.7m children's-data fine, letting a tribunal ruling on 'special purp...

UAE 2026-09-25

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Ninth Circuit Shuts Down the DMCA Shortcut for AI Copyright Suits, Leaves the Real Claims Standing

Fifth Circuit's New Transmission Test Keeps Embedding Legal — But Breaks With the Ninth Circuit

Montana's Deepfake Election Law Falls Because It Only Punished Deepfakes That Hurt Candidates

Swiss Court Draws a Bright Line Between Debt Enforcement and Digital Shaming

Cape Town's Equinix Freeze Shows Data Centres Were Never Zoned as Data Centres

Canada's License Plate Camera Boom Is Outrunning Its Own Privacy Rules

Bitget's $387 Million Breach Shows 'Singapore-Based' Crypto Exchanges Often Sit Outside Singapore's Rules

China's AI Content Crackdown Shows the Limits of Enforcement Without Due Process

Japan Adds Deepfake Investment Scams to Platform Takedown Rules — Via Guidelines, Not New Law

A Supreme Court Ruling on FTC Independence Puts the EU-US Data Deal's Legal Foundation in Question

China's Trade Union Federation Moves to Put Gig Algorithms on the Bargaining Table, But It Still Owns Both Sides of the Table

A $1.4 Billion Broadband Grant Would Bar California From Enforcing Its Own Net Neutrality Law for 14 Years

The UAE Is Racing to Automate Half Its Government Before It Decides Who Answers When AI Gets a Decision Wrong

Brussels Moves From AI Act Paperwork to Enforcement, and the First Test Is Frontier-Model Safety

Estonia's Record e-Residency Growth Shows Digital-First Government Scales — Its Move to Remote Biometrics Will Test Whether Security Scales With It

Kiteworks' Six-Hour Precautionary Shutdown Sets a Higher Bar for Zero-Day Disclosure

Kenya's Draft 'Sensitive Data' Rule for Political and Union Data Is Narrower Than the Election-Year Framing Suggests

Turkey's Emergency Blocking Law, Built for Narrow Cases, Is Now Silencing Its Own Critics at Scale

The Labcorp Settlement Shows State AGs, Not Federal Regulators, Are Writing America's Vendor-Security Rules

Snap's Bid to Escape Kansas State Court Handed Plaintiffs a State-Actor Blueprint

TikTok's Surrendered Appeal Confirms a Narrow Reading of 'Artistic Purposes' — and Clears the Runway for the Harder Case on Teen Algorithms

G42's Embrace of Nvidia's Free Models Exposes the Limits of UAE 'Sovereign AI' Branding

Congress Answers Salt Typhoon With a Working Group, Not a Mandate — That's Defensible, But It Needs Teeth

Israel's First Consumer Privacy Fine Under Amendment 13 Is Small on Purpose

Malaysia's 93% Takedown Compliance Rate Exposes the Limits of Notice-and-Removal, Not Platform Defiance