India's WhatsApp Username Notice Is a Design Veto, Not Law Enforcement
MeitY told WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to justify a pseudonymous-username feature — an informal letter doing the work a formal blocking order was built for.
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Italy Moves to Shift the Burden of Proof in AI Harm Suits, Filling a Gap Brussels Walked Away From
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The Netherlands Commits to a State-Owned Cloud, Betting Sovereignty Beats Efficiency
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South Africa's Madlanga Commission Shows POPIA's Law-Enforcement Carve-Out Working as Designed
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NATO's Non-Commercial Cyber Pacts With Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET Are a Feature, Not a Loophole
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Switzerland's Retrospective-Only Facial Recognition Rule Is the Proportionality Test Asian Police Forces Are Failing
A UN report on protest surveillance highlights the gap between Switzerland's narrow, retrospective facial-matching law a...
Turkey Folds Vehicle Cybersecurity Into Registration Law, Then Gives Automakers 13 Days to Comply
A June 2026 gazette amendment ties car registration to software-update and cybersecurity compliance, with almost no tran...
Pakistan's Draft AI Oversight Rules Will Govern the Same Open Models Its Sovereignty Plan Needs
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Ukraine's $1.1 Billion Satellite Bet Is a Hedge Against Any Single Ally, Not Just Russia
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