PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 6% Max fine, global turnover 15 Minimum independent account age
EU
platform regulation
Brussels adopted a proposal barring under-13s from social media and capping teen accounts, but its own comparators show enforcement, not the age line, is the hard problem.
2026-09-18
RESEARCH $300M CAD Joint Canada-Germany commitment $150M CAD Canada's Strategic Response Fund stake
Canada
2026-09-18
Canada and Germany are giving Yoshua Bengio's LawZero up to $300M CAD to build AI safety tools, choosing direct funding ...
RESEARCH CHF 6M Summit core budget Jun 21-22, 202 Summit dates
Switzerland
2026-09-18
The Federal Council appointed Fabiola Gianotti to lead the 2027 Geneva AI Summit, doubling down on sector-specific rules...
RESEARCH 4 Operators referred to prosecution 19 Rights groups demanding withdrawal
Egypt
2026-09-18
NTRA prosecuted four telecoms over fraudulent SIM registrations, then mandated biometric data collection that 19 rights ...
RESEARCH Nov. 16, 2023 ICAIRE UNESCO status granted Sept 14-17, 20 First Arab-world UNESCO AI forum
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-18
SDAIA's push for human oversight, kill-switches, and a Riyadh-based UNESCO ethics hub signals Saudi Arabia moving from A...
RESEARCH 5.61M AI Content Pieces Removed 49,000+ Accounts Penalized
China
2026-09-18
Beijing's crackdown removed 5.61 million AI posts and penalized 49,000 accounts — legitimate targets, adjudicated with z...
RESEARCH CHF 854.7M Auction reserve price 43% Max frequency share per bidder
Switzerland
2026-09-18
ComCom's record CHF 854.7m reserve price and bidding caps aim to preserve competition among Swisscom, Sunrise and Salt —...
RESEARCH 130M+ Population within reach 7 Statutes reformed at once
Mexico
2026-09-18
A Mexican tribunal will decide Aug. 6, 2026 whether Artículo 19's challenge to the mandatory biometric ID and interconne...
RESEARCH 11 Prohibited content categories ¥100,000 Maximum standard fine
China
2026-09-18
CAC's Sept. 1 multi-channel distribution rules bundle vague 'social antagonism' bans with real fraud fixes, handing plat...
RESEARCH 94 Articles Revised draft length 30 Days Public comment window
China
2026-09-14
CAC's revised draft folds algorithm recommendation rules into a 94-article internet law, mixing a real opt-out right wit...
RESEARCH Q1 2027 Parliamentary tabling target 23.4% Digital economy GDP share
Malaysia
2026-09-14
Gobind Singh Deo says the draft AI Governance Bill is complete and heading to Cabinet, with the AI Malaysia enforcement ...
RESEARCH 2,034 Total accounts blocked 1,335 Blocked for 'disinformation'
Turkey
2026-09-14
Ankara blocked more accounts for vague 'psychological operations' claims than for actual terror links.
RESEARCH 6 months Metadata retention ceiling June 18, 2026 House passage date
Canada
2026-09-14
Bill C-22 lets Canadian police demand subscriber data without a warrant and reaches EU firms, but its anti-backdoor clau...
RESEARCH 29 Sep 2026 Bid closing date 3 years Contract duration
South Africa
2026-09-14
Tender RFB 3286-2026 requires facial-matching in police cameras, but South Africa has no statute on activation, access, ...
RESEARCH <1% Africa's global DC capacity Zero Conditions on JNB11 deal
South Africa
2026-09-14
The Competition Commission recommended unconditional approval of Main Street 2156's acquisition of Vantage's JNB11 data ...
RESEARCH 7 days Biometric Data Retention Window 5 years Audit Log Retention
Italy
2026-09-14
Italy's privacy regulator says a decree letting police preemptively store biometric data from crowds breaches the EU AI ...
RESEARCH 18 Journalists jailed in Egypt 169th Egypt's global press freedom rank
Egypt
2026-09-14
Egypt jailed writer Ahmed Douma for 'false news' over prison-conditions writing, despite a constitutional ban on custodi...
RESEARCH <100,000 peopl Small-handler threshold Every 5 years Simplified audit cycle
China
2026-09-14
CAC and the Ministry of Public Security ease PIPL duties for entities handling under 100,000 people's data, mirroring ex...
RESEARCH $50–$2,500 Annual licence fee range $1,250 Mandatory DPO certification cost
Africa
2026-09-14
POTRAZ's September 2026 inspection drive enforces a real privacy law, but flat licensing fees and presidential control o...
RESEARCH S$410.6M H1 2026 scam losses S$10M Max platform fine
Singapore
2026-09-14
Singapore's Scams Bill lets police freeze accounts and platforms auto-remove content at machine speed — the tradeoff onl...
RESEARCH 12 years Years operating in Nigeria $220M FCCPC's Meta/WhatsApp fine
Nigeria
2026-09-13
FCCPC's inquiry into Uber's abrupt Nigeria exit is a legitimate consumer-protection check, not a license to punish marke...
RESEARCH €645,000 HSE fine total €4.04B DPC fines since 2018
Ireland
2026-09-13
The DPC's HSE fine will actually get collected quickly, unlike most of the €4bn in penalties it has levied on Big Tech s...
RESEARCH Rp9.1T (~$542M Online fraud losses 432,637 Fraud reports filed
Indonesia
2026-09-13
Bakom's proposal to link social media to KTP or phone numbers targets real fraud losses but risks chilling speech under ...
RESEARCH 4T tokens 8B model retraining tokens ~40% Non-English training share
Switzerland
2026-09-13
ETH Zurich and EPFL's multimodal Apertus 1.5 makes the case for public, auditable AI — even as Bern still leans on Micro...
RESEARCH €5.5B Google Germany infrastructure spend End of 2026 Full key handover target
Germany
2026-09-13
By end of 2026, Thales alone will hold the encryption keys to Google's German cloud — a contractual fix that beats force...