PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH €5M CNIL fine on IQVIA 14,000 Pharmacies feeding LRX
EU
GDPR enforcement
CNIL's May 2026 fine on IQVIA's health data warehouses shows pseudonymized data stays regulated data — but the penalty also punishes basic security gaps regulators should target directly.
2026-07-18
RESEARCH $10B–$100B Potential fines flagged internally $1.5B Anthropic's 2025 copyright settlement
US
2026-07-18
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and Scott Turow sued Google July 15 over Gemini training on pirated books despite internal w...
RESEARCH 21 CyCon 2026 papers published ~800 Conference participants
Estonia
2026-07-18
CyCon 2026 scholars say IHL already binds military AI; Estonia's own strategy skips it, exposing the real procurement ga...
RESEARCH 4.7M My OneApp registered users 1.3M Daily active My OneApp users
Kenya
2026-07-18
My OneApp went data-free on June 22, 2026, testing a competitive-neutrality rule the regulator has never applied to zero...
RESEARCH ₩701M Total Penalties Imposed 1.47M People Affected Combined
South Korea
2026-07-18
PIPC fined three firms a combined ₩701M over breaches affecting 1.47M people, scaling penalties to company size rather t...
RESEARCH 220M Voter files allegedly acquired 18 States affected
China
2026-07-18
Declassified intelligence shows China bought commercially available US voter files — a real gap in data-broker law, not ...
RESEARCH Jul 14, 2026 Compliance deadline 3 months Compliance window given
France
2026-07-18
France's July 14 deadline requires disclosure and opt-out for email tracking pixels, applying CNIL's aggressive cookie-c...
RESEARCH 23 Jun 2026 Interim authorisation granted 10-25% Play Store fee cap range
Australia
2026-07-18
The ACCC's interim authorisation covers Australian developers, not users — and days later Google and Epic abandoned an e...
RESEARCH 320+ Servers taken offline 27M Credentials recovered
Germany
2026-07-18
BKA's fourth Operation Endgame action disabled 320+ malware servers feeding ransomware, while Germany's new NIS2 law add...
RESEARCH 4 Data laws since mid-2024 18 Countries with EU adequacy status
EU
2026-07-18
Vietnam's draft Law on Data Security would ban core data exports and hand MPS pre-approval power, layering atop three ex...
RESEARCH 10% revenue Max penalty exposure 3+ months Investigation timeline
UK
2026-07-18
Ofcom's July 16 probe targets a TikTok age-check method its own guidance had already excluded from 'highly effective' st...
RESEARCH 100,000 National processing unit target $20-30B Estimated infrastructure cost
Israel
2026-07-18
Israel's June 16 cabinet resolution sets a $20-30B sovereign-compute goal, while its AI Directorate holds roughly $33M f...
RESEARCH Jun 24, 2026 Lab launch date Tier 1 ITU cybersecurity ranking
Egypt
2026-07-18
NTRA, Telecom Egypt and AASTMT opened a cybersecurity test-bed on June 24, but Egypt's accreditation regime still gates ...