ADGM's AI Success Shows Regulators Can Lead by Using AI, But the UAE Still Owes Firms Rules
ADGM reports 54% AUM growth and AI across 25 functions, while the UAE's federal data rules still lack Executive Regulations.
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Texas's TikTok Ruling Punishes What TikTok Said About Moderation, Not What It Hosted. That Is the Right Line
A Travis County judge found TikTok liable under Texas's DTPA for misdescribing its 'hard to find' policy and Restricted ...
Condition 50 Would Let a Federal Grant Term Do What Courts Refused to Let Providers Do: Void California's Net Neutrality Law
NTIA's BEAD Condition 50 would bar California from enforcing net neutrality and rate rules on funded ISPs statewide for ...
TRAI's Spam Rules Shield Registered Callers From App Filters and Make Truecaller a Data Feeder for Telcos
India's TRAI has barred call apps from tagging or blocking 140, 1600 and 1601 numbers and priced automated calls, tradin...
South Africa's Police Facial Recognition Tender Puts Procurement Ahead of the Law That Should Govern It
SITA's SAPS bodycam tender requires facial recognition and ANPR, yet names no legal basis, budget or quantity. POPIA's d...
Philippines Is Stretching a 2012 Privacy Law to Cover Deepfakes, and Its Speech Carve-Outs Will Bear the Strain
The NPC says a face is personal data and unauthorized AI likenesses can violate the Data Privacy Act. It is a fast fix t...
Brazil's Platform Decrees Put a Data Protection Agency in Charge of Speech Duties, and Add a Reporting Mandate With No Judge in the Loop
Brazil's May 2026 decrees implement the Supreme Court's Article 19 ruling. The unresolved risks are the ANPD's role and ...
Vietnam's Decree 333 Tries to Make Localisation a Last Resort for Foreign Platforms, but Domestic Firms Get No Such Off-Ramp
Vietnam's Decree 333/2026 localises data for Vietnam-incorporated firms automatically but gates offshore providers behin...
France's Constitutional Council Has Turned CNIL's Age-Assurance Principles Into a Constitutional Constraint
Decision 2026-911-DC struck down France's under-15 social media ban, and its privacy holding backs CNIL's minimisation a...
The Ninth Circuit Has Made Section 230 a Defense You Must Litigate Through Discovery, Not a Shield From Suit
In California v. Meta, the Ninth Circuit held Section 230 denials are not immediately appealable, raising the cost of ea...
A Grievance Appellate Committee That Copies Platform Policy Text Is Not Redress
Delhi HC will test whether a creator can challenge a GAC order upholding a YouTube termination; the real fix is reasoned...
Ofcom's Uncollected Fines Show the Online Safety Act Has an Enforcement Gap, Not a Penalty Gap
Most of Ofcom's £7m in Online Safety Act fines is unpaid. Collecting offshore debts is the problem, and bigger penalties...
A Judge Just Reminded DOJ That Paying for Compliance Is Not Proof of It
Judge Wu's tentative refusal to vacate TikTok's 2019 COPPA order puts $100M at risk and shows why money alone can't repl...
Indonesia's Cybersecurity Bill Should Write Shutdown Limits Into the Statute, Not Leave Them to Later Regulation
As ISPs press the DPR to pass the RUU KKS, the sharper question is whether internet-cut powers can safely wait for imple...
Germany's NIS2 Registration Gap Is a Scoping Problem, Not Defiance, and Fines Would Punish the Wrong Thing
About 10,000 of 29,500 in-scope German entities are unregistered after the BSI grace period. The €500,000 fine ceiling, ...
Taiwan's Chip-Talent Crackdown Works Because It Targets Ownership Deception, Not Communications Dragnets
Rest of World's Taiwan data shows enforcement built on ownership fraud, not mass surveillance. That is the model to keep...
Saudi Arabia's Narrow Starlink Licence Leaves No Satellite Backstop If Mobile Networks Go Dark
Saudi Arabia licensed Starlink only for aviation and maritime use, so residents have no independent satellite link if te...
Taiwan's Streaming Policy Is All Subsidy and No Rulebook, and the Budget Fight Shows Why That Is Fragile
Legislators cut NT$200 million from TaiwanPlus while a NT$30 billion content fund relies on the same annual budget polit...
Delhi High Court's Real-Time Piracy Blocking for Amazon's 'VIBE' Hands a Private Party Unreviewed Blocking Power
The September 15 order lets Amazon direct ISPs and registrars to block new mirror sites and report to the court only aft...
Brinkema's Ad Tech Remedy Trades the Breakup for Rules That Can Actually Be Enforced
The court rejected divestiture of Google's ad tech and imposed interoperability, data portability and a six-year monitor...
The EU KIDS Act Gets the Burden of Proof Right but Builds It on Universal Age Checks
The Commission's KIDS Act rightly makes platforms prove safety, but mandatory age verification for every user creates pr...
Russia's Foreign-Agent Rules Now Reach the Ad Market and Bank Accounts, Widening a Regime Built on Labels, Not Evidence
Russia's amended foreign-agents law bans social advertising on designated outlets and adds bank-data and electronic-repo...
TikTok's Social-Commerce Merger Needs Design Rules, Not a Forced Split of Video and Shopping
TikTok Shop's EU launch tests DSA rules on addictive design and trader traceability; targeted obligations beat structura...
Gunra Shows Korea's Ransomware Defense Should Reward Patching, Not Just Punish Breaches
A joint US–Korea advisory on Gunra ransomware lands as Korea's 10%-of-revenue PIPA fines take effect. Patch discipline i...
France's Tesla FSD Trial Needs a Written Data Regime, Not Just a Ministerial Phone Call
France approved two-car FSD (Supervised) road trials after a call with Musk. Proportionate rules on logging, sharing and...