PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 30% → 20% New-install fee, from 2032 Authorisation sought until
Australia
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The ACCC's 22 July 2026 draft determination would authorise a private antitrust settlement that does more for Android competition than years of ex-ante platform rules.
2026-08-30
RESEARCH 2.2B People offline worldwide 94% vs 23% High- vs low-income internet use
Global
2026-08-30
Civil society's Geneva demands for AI 'red lines' are broadly right on substance but risk hardening exclusions the dialo...
RESEARCH 10 yrs Max term draft rumour clause 4,500+ People affected under prior law
Bangladesh
2026-08-30
A cabinet committee is drafting a third amendment to Bangladesh's four-month-old Cyber Security Act, expanding takedown ...
RESEARCH €120M DSA non-compliance fine 90 days Deadline to submit plan
US
2026-08-30
The EU approved X's plan to fix ad-transparency and researcher-access breaches even after its advisory board found the p...
RESEARCH 4-5 months Average repair turnaround 0 Indian-flagged repair vessels
India
2026-08-30
DoT's single-window portal to unify Coast Guard, MHA and shipping clearances is the right fix for delay — but it doesn't...
RESEARCH 4 hours Incident reporting window 2 years In-country data retention
Nigeria
2026-08-30
NCC's Cyber Resilience Framework imposes fast reporting, dedicated CISOs and in-country data retention on telecoms — sou...
RESEARCH 576 Influencer profiles checked 97% Posts with commercial content
Ireland
2026-08-30
The Digital Fairness Act will require ad labels and bar influencer promotion of plastic surgery, gambling and risky fina...
RESEARCH Jul 31, 2026 Transposition deadline 27 National transposition laws
Indonesia
2026-08-30
The EU's Right to Repair Directive's July 31, 2026 deadline binds any exporter selling phones, tablets or servers into t...
RESEARCH ~26% Third-party payment fee ₩68B Proposed maximum fines
South Korea
2026-08-30
KMCC ruled Google and Apple's 26% third-party payment fee guts Korea's pioneering app-payment law, five years on with no...
RESEARCH 8M+ Subscribers suspended June 15 60 days Grace window before full block
Brazil
2026-08-30
Vietnam's biometric SIM purge shows what fast, hard telecom-identity enforcement costs; Brazil should note the lesson, n...
RESEARCH 2 hours Operator compliance window 48 hours Judicial ruling deadline
Turkey
2026-08-30
Law No. 7590 moves domain names, platform oversight and wiretap infrastructure from BTK to a presidential cyber body rev...
RESEARCH 20-30% Surcharge on violations 3 Specified Software Operators designated
Japan
2026-08-30
Tokyo's antitrust regulator says misuse of interoperability data would violate its smartphone law and is already preppin...
RESEARCH 2023 CCDCOE member since 4,300+ 2024 cyber incidents recorded
Estonia
2026-08-30
A CCDCOE visit to Kyiv signals NATO wants to formalize, not just admire, Ukraine's wartime cyber-defence playbook.
RESEARCH 2 Confirmed Pegasus infections 6 PEGA fact-finding countries
Israel
2026-08-30
Pegasus hit an MEP investigating Pegasus abuse — proof Israel's export-control paperwork isn't matched by enforcement.
RESEARCH 30→7 days Default retention cut 50+ Agencies dropping Flock
US
2026-08-29
Flock cut license-plate data retention from 30 to 7 days after nationwide backlash, but the deeper fix is a legal floor,...
RESEARCH 111 Restricted export technologies 601 Entities on Taiwan's blacklist
Taiwan
2026-08-29
China is weighing a rule barring TSMC and Qualcomm from fabricating Huawei, Alibaba and ByteDance designs — mirroring th...
RESEARCH 7 years Max prison for AI porn creation 31 → 550 Deepfake cases, 2020 vs 2024
South Korea
2026-08-29
A Goyang court's acquittal over AI porn with no identifiable victim pushed Seoul toward a bill that punishes pure fictio...
RESEARCH CHF 5,000 Procedural costs ordered ~5 years Years since first FDPIC warning
Switzerland
2026-08-29
The Federal Administrative Court found Schuldner-finden.com's crowdsourced debtor exposés unlawful, reinforcing why Swit...
RESEARCH 5 Ministries co-issuing rules Under 14 Age triggering parental consent
China
2026-08-29
Beijing's July 2026 chatbot rules add real minor-protection safeguards but bundle them with vague ideological bans and m...
RESEARCH 8.6 CVSS severity score 12 Software trains affected
Singapore
2026-08-29
CSA's fast, narrow response to an actively-exploited Cisco firewall flaw is a model for proportionate cyber regulation, ...
RESEARCH €750,000 AGCOM fine on Google 16 Jul 2026 CJEU judgment date
Italy
2026-08-29
The Court of Justice found reviewing a YouTube channel before a revenue-share deal is 'specific knowledge' that can stri...
RESEARCH ~30,000 Entities in scope ~18,500 Registered by end of May
Germany
2026-08-29
BSI gave firms until July 31 to register under NIS2 after Germany itself took 13 months longer than the EU deadline to p...
RESEARCH 27% Stock drop on disclosure 21% to 5% Operating margin collapse
Israel
2026-08-29
A Chicago class action against Wix.com claims AI hype crossed into fraud — but the facts alleged look more like normal c...
RESEARCH ~45% Chinese OEM market share 2025 Aug 31, 2026 Compliance proof deadline
India
2026-08-29
MNRE gave ALMM wind OEMs 11 days to prove India-only data centres and control rooms — sound security logic, compressed i...
RESEARCH 79th Canada's signatory rank 3 of 40 Ratifications deposited
Global
2026-08-29
Canada became the 79th signatory to the UN Cybercrime Convention while only 3 of 40 needed ratifications are in — a gap ...