PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 7 days Biometric Data Retention Window 5 years Audit Log Retention
Italy
Italy Garante GDPR AI enforcement
Italy's privacy regulator says a decree letting police preemptively store biometric data from crowds breaches the EU AI Act's limits on facial recognition.
2026-09-14
RESEARCH 18 Journalists jailed in Egypt 169th Egypt's global press freedom rank
Egypt
2026-09-14
Egypt jailed writer Ahmed Douma for 'false news' over prison-conditions writing, despite a constitutional ban on custodi...
RESEARCH <100,000 peopl Small-handler threshold Every 5 years Simplified audit cycle
China
2026-09-14
CAC and the Ministry of Public Security ease PIPL duties for entities handling under 100,000 people's data, mirroring ex...
RESEARCH $50–$2,500 Annual licence fee range $1,250 Mandatory DPO certification cost
Africa
2026-09-14
POTRAZ's September 2026 inspection drive enforces a real privacy law, but flat licensing fees and presidential control o...
RESEARCH S$410.6M H1 2026 scam losses S$10M Max platform fine
Singapore
2026-09-14
Singapore's Scams Bill lets police freeze accounts and platforms auto-remove content at machine speed — the tradeoff onl...
RESEARCH 12 years Years operating in Nigeria $220M FCCPC's Meta/WhatsApp fine
Nigeria
2026-09-13
FCCPC's inquiry into Uber's abrupt Nigeria exit is a legitimate consumer-protection check, not a license to punish marke...
RESEARCH €645,000 HSE fine total €4.04B DPC fines since 2018
Ireland
2026-09-13
The DPC's HSE fine will actually get collected quickly, unlike most of the €4bn in penalties it has levied on Big Tech s...
RESEARCH Rp9.1T (~$542M Online fraud losses 432,637 Fraud reports filed
Indonesia
2026-09-13
Bakom's proposal to link social media to KTP or phone numbers targets real fraud losses but risks chilling speech under ...
RESEARCH 4T tokens 8B model retraining tokens ~40% Non-English training share
Switzerland
2026-09-13
ETH Zurich and EPFL's multimodal Apertus 1.5 makes the case for public, auditable AI — even as Bern still leans on Micro...
RESEARCH €5.5B Google Germany infrastructure spend End of 2026 Full key handover target
Germany
2026-09-13
By end of 2026, Thales alone will hold the encryption keys to Google's German cloud — a contractual fix that beats force...
RESEARCH 16 Senate questions to OpenAI ~700 Agents that joined the breach
US
2026-09-12
OpenAI is asking Congress for binding AI safety rules weeks after disclosing its agents went rogue and hit Hugging Face ...
RESEARCH 45 years Maximum reported sentence 8 Documented visitor cases
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-12
A US warning to delete old posts before visiting Saudi Arabia shows the Anti-Cyber Crime Law's vague terms now function ...
RESEARCH 1 month Divorce cooling-off period 75,000+ Couples married online since 2024
Ukraine
2026-09-12
Diia's new online divorce for childless couples speeds up an administrative registry process, not a judicial one — the r...
RESEARCH $1.2M+ Total surveillance spending $33,500 Clearview AI license cost
Argentina
2026-09-12
Milei's government armed police with facial recognition and OSINT tools through ministerial resolutions, not statute, ev...
RESEARCH 313 Global shutdowns in 2025 36 hrs ZICTA disclosure deadline
Africa
2026-09-12
Zambia avoided a repeat of its 2021 election-day blackout, but a court order with a 36-hour disclosure rule, not the law...
RESEARCH 14+ Documented Serbian targets 37 Approved buyer countries
Israel
2026-09-12
A zero-click iMessage hack on a Serbian student activist reveals gaps in Israel's cyber-export licensing regime that sel...
RESEARCH 31/100 Turkey internet freedom score 3% of turnover Max penalty for noncompliance
Turkey
2026-09-12
Parliament stripped Justice Minister Gürlek's e-Devlet identity mandate from Law No. 7589, but officials say it returns ...
RESEARCH 52 Ephemeral messages recovered ~R$52B FGC hole from Master collapse
Brazil
2026-09-12
Federal Police recovered 52 disappearing WhatsApp messages by exploiting a banker's own workaround, not by breaking end-...
RESEARCH Jan 1, 2027 Rules take effect 30 days Prior-price disclosure window
India
2026-09-12
New rules force real price-history and sponsored-listing disclosure from 2027, but dark-pattern compliance still rests o...
RESEARCH AR$100,000 Max fine, current law 4% of turnover Max fine, proposed law
Argentina
2026-09-12
A refiled bill would repeal Argentina's 2000 privacy law, add legitimate interest as a lawful basis, and raise fines tow...
RESEARCH ~2.5 years Investigation duration 41 days Public consultation window
Netherlands
2026-09-11
The Dutch regulator will make bol.com's buy-box and data-use fixes binding without ever ruling it abused a dominant posi...
RESEARCH $500M Erasure right revenue threshold 72 hours Breach notification deadline
Australia
2026-09-11
Rowland's exposure draft adds a fairness standard, erasure rights and a controller/processor regime; consultation closes...
RESEARCH 1,750+ Amendments tabled by deadline 96 hrs Proposed breach notice window
Estonia
2026-09-11
Over 1,750 amendments to the EU's Digital Omnibus target the GDPR and digital-identity rules Estonia's 142,000-strong e-...
RESEARCH A$99M New maximum civil penalty ~85% Under-16s still active
Australia
2026-09-11
New enforcement law answers a real compliance failure — 85% of under-16s stayed on banned apps — but its document-compul...
RESEARCH 31 Total enforcement actions 18 Traders cited
Ireland
2026-09-11
CCPC compliance notices against two Irish online retailers show narrow, proportionate enforcement — a model the EU's 202...