PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 15 Dutch preferred minimum age 0 Extra personal data processed
Netherlands
children online safety age verification
The Netherlands and Spain want an EU-wide social media age floor that lifts for services proven safe. The idea is better than a flat ban, but the age-check tooling lags.
2026-11-01
RESEARCH 15 Minimum age under ban ~2.5 months Platform compliance window
EU
2026-11-01
Greece's under-15 ban adds a wallet-based age check and an EU-law sunset clause, but it still makes adults prove their a...
RESEARCH 17 Oct 2024 NIS2 transposition deadline 4 Member States referred to CJEU
Ireland
2026-11-01
Ireland is 20 months past the NIS2 deadline and facing a CJEU referral. Even so, the NCSC's emergency surveillance and d...
RESEARCH 130 Servers in indictment 74 Servers reached China
Taiwan
2026-11-01
Taipei wants unauthorised AI server and chip shipments to China to be criminal offences. The gap is genuine, but precise...
RESEARCH ~100,000 Households losing service 50,000+ Starlink terminals in Ukraine
Ukraine
2026-11-01
Russian strikes on Kyiv data centres in September 2026 hit the internet's physical core. Satellite links can't replace i...
RESEARCH 72 hrs Reporting window (s54) R50 000 Maximum fine for non-reporting
South Africa
2026-11-01
The Presidency took its PHP-based site offline for a vulnerability scare. The Cybercrimes Act has a SAPS contact point b...
RESEARCH 114/180 RSF press freedom rank ₱48,000 Bail posted by Lustre
Philippines
2026-11-01
Philip Lustre Jr.'s arrest on a Davao warrant he never saw coming exposes how RA 10175's cyberlibel clause lets procedur...
RESEARCH 14 Florida minimum account age Under 16 Georgia parental-consent age
US
2026-11-01
Two 2026 Eleventh Circuit opinions let Florida and Georgia enforce youth account limits, mostly on procedural grounds th...
RESEARCH 2 Sep 2026 Standard published 16 Dec 2026 Expected OJ citation
Global
2026-11-01
EN 301 549 v4.1.1 gives firms a clearer route to EAA compliance, but with no fines yet confirmed, regulators should prov...
RESEARCH €1,000 Daily penalty ordered ~20 Other pending French suits
France
2026-11-01
A Paris court's €1,000-a-day order pushes a Swiss nonprofit resolver out of France, exposing how far judge-made DNS bloc...
RESEARCH ~600,000 Estimated 2020-22 war deaths ~6M People in cut-off region
Africa
2026-10-31
Whoever ordered the September 2026 Tigray telecom cut, the harm lands on civilians, and African and regional law already...
RESEARCH ~63% Apple share of revenue 7,736 Amazon satellites approved
Global
2026-10-31
The FCC cleared Amazon Leo's ~$11.5B Globalstar deal because the two firms don't compete today. The order is sound, but ...
RESEARCH 4 hrs Cyberattack report window 48 hrs Data breach notification window
Nigeria
2026-10-31
NITDA's awareness drive targets deepfakes and quishing, but overlapping NCC and NITDA platform codes leave the complianc...
RESEARCH 12M Monthly active users ~2 hrs Average daily use
US
2026-10-31
The US Trustee wants a privacy ombudsman before Character.AI sells chat data from 12 million monthly users. Existing ban...
RESEARCH 3 years Metadata storage period 6 months Message content retention
Russia
2026-10-31
Roskomnadzor's ORI listing of Apple and Microsoft binds both firms to warrantless data access and a blocking threat. The...
RESEARCH $3,500 Third-violatio n fine ~70 FTC complaints per day, 2024
US
2026-10-31
New York City's 1 October rule restores a cancellation floor the Eighth Circuit erased, but strict liability and escalat...
RESEARCH 696 Unauthorised people with access 88 Home loan applicants exposed
South Africa
2026-10-31
South Africa's Information Regulator fined FNB R1 million after 696 people could view 88 home loan applications. The del...
RESEARCH 945,075 URLs blocked, FY2026 835,207 Covered by court orders
Thailand
2026-10-31
MDES's gambling takedown tally is a scale test for a section 20 channel that a July 2026 notification opened to content ...
RESEARCH 8 Intermediate CAs affected <3 hrs Mozilla block time
India
2026-10-31
Weak keys in eight eMudhra intermediate CAs were blocked in hours; the board's exit from global TLS shows both the stren...
RESEARCH 10% Maximum fine, global turnover 7 Meta services covered
UK
2026-10-31
London's High Court rejected Meta, TikTok and X's challenge to Ofcom's information notices, leaving the burden of proof ...
RESEARCH 15 days AI training course length 500,000 People targeted for skills
Pakistan
2026-10-31
Islamabad is pushing ahead with Alibaba-backed AI projects while its open-source governance framework stays a proposal a...
RESEARCH 150 GB Data Handala claims stolen NIS 640,000 Typical administrative sanction
Israel
2026-10-31
Handala's unconfirmed Etype claim shows state-backed leak operations ignore payment incentives, so Israel's bill should ...
RESEARCH ~90% Indonesian traffic via Singapore 80% Singapore capacity at risk
Indonesia
2026-10-31
A social-media spat over 90% of Indonesian traffic routing via Singapore exposes mutual dependence, and the case for Kom...
RESEARCH 15,000x Maximum fine (UMA) 10% Cinema screen-time share
Mexico
2026-10-31
Mexico's 2026 film law requires a relevant section of national works on streaming services. The USMCA review makes the u...
RESEARCH 22 Opinions on zero-rating draft 1984 Year Telecom Business Act enacted
Japan
2026-10-31
MIC's frontier-AI data-protection study group tests a light-touch carrier regime built on Article 6 non-discrimination a...