PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 15 Age for autonomous accounts 1 hour Mini-account daily limit
EU
child online safety regulation
The Commission's KIDS Act rightly makes platforms prove safety, but mandatory age verification for every user creates privacy risks the design duties could avoid.
2026-09-20
RESEARCH 1,200+ Designated people and organisations 4% 2025 designees with confirmed funding
Russia
2026-09-20
Russia's amended foreign-agents law bans social advertising on designated outlets and adds bank-data and electronic-repo...
RESEARCH 12 EU markets for UK sellers 6% Maximum DSA fine
Germany
2026-09-20
TikTok Shop's EU launch tests DSA rules on addictive design and trader traceability; targeted obligations beat structura...
RESEARCH 5-7 days Ransom payment window 134.8B won Record SKT privacy fine
South Korea
2026-09-20
A joint US–Korea advisory on Gunra ransomware lands as Korea's 10%-of-revenue PIPA fines take effect. Patch discipline i...
RESEARCH 2 Vehicles in French trial 5 European countries authorising FSD
France
2026-09-20
France approved two-car FSD (Supervised) road trials after a call with Musk. Proportionate rules on logging, sharing and...
RESEARCH 25 Operators notified Sept 16 22 Warned in July round
Indonesia
2026-09-20
Komdigi gave 25 private operators, including Shopify, until Sept 22 to register or risk blocking. Registration is fair; ...
RESEARCH Oct 14 NSA response deadline 6–3 Paxton Supreme Court vote
US
2026-09-20
A CRS analysis says traffic analysis can unmask single-hop VPN users without breaking encryption. Age-verification manda...
RESEARCH 2 Separate designations issued 30 days Response window under § 4713
US
2026-09-20
A federal court held the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' label on Anthropic was First Amendment retaliation. A parallel d...
RESEARCH 1–2 yrs Proposed slowdown length 3 Steps in the plan
Global
2026-09-20
Anthropic's call to slow frontier AI by an extra year or two splits governments; evaluator access is a sound first step,...
RESEARCH 6 years Maximum prison term Rp 600M Maximum fine
Indonesia
2026-09-20
Komdigi chose to mentor a Mentawai Starlink reseller rather than punish him, exposing a telecom law that criminalises sm...
RESEARCH 130-106 Deputies vote in favor US$1B Minimum investment per project
Argentina
2026-09-20
Senate amendments on substations and 20% local suppliers show Argentina's AI strategy is an investment-incentive law, an...
RESEARCH 4M+ Hugging Face downloads 70+ External deployments
Switzerland
2026-09-19
A year after launch, Apertus has 4 million downloads and 100+ derivatives. Switzerland should judge it on open infrastru...
RESEARCH 0 Platforms in the room 1.4 crore Sanchar Saathi downloads
India
2026-09-19
A closed-door India consultation on shared seller KYC and buy-box penalties had no platform present. The Sanchar Saathi ...
RESEARCH 41 Locked Shields nations 4,000+ Cyber defenders trained
Estonia
2026-09-19
NB8 energy ministers rehearsed a fictional electricity crisis at NATO's Tallinn cyber centre. Practice with operators be...
RESEARCH 10% Maximum penalty, share of turnover €20M Minimum fine ceiling
Ireland
2026-09-19
Coimisiún na Meán's first Online Safety Code case against X will define what 'effective' age assurance means. Regulators...
RESEARCH 46% Youth with internet difficulties 70% Ages 10-19 using TikTok
Japan
2026-09-19
Japan's July 2026 interim report targets platform risk assessment and design rather than a Australia-style ban, but its ...
RESEARCH 100+ Days of shutdown 50+ Reported deaths (unverified)
Pakistan
2026-09-19
Mobile data and broadband have been cut since June 5, and banking and exams are disrupted even after the August 10 vote....
RESEARCH $2,500 Statutory damages floor 150+ chars GitHub duplicate-filter threshold
US
2026-09-19
In Doe v. GitHub, the Ninth Circuit held that AI code output lacking attribution is a new work, not a copy stripped of C...
RESEARCH 12 Bills in signed package Under 16 Age covered by ban
US
2026-09-19
AB 1709 restricts what minors can access rather than how platforms behave, and it rests on age verification that concent...
RESEARCH €56.83M AP budget 2027 <€49M AP budget from 2028
Netherlands
2026-09-19
Budget cuts to the ACM and AP from 2028 clash with the Dutch-backed EU cloud DMA case and the ACM's own warnings about d...
RESEARCH 10% New maximum fine ceiling 40% Max prevention fine discount
South Korea
2026-09-19
South Korea's amended PIPA took effect Sept. 11 with fines up to 10% of revenue and CEO accountability; the 40% preventi...
RESEARCH ~500 Verification tests 40% Weight on operations
Brazil
2026-09-19
Serpro's graded test of data, operations and technology, with foreign providers kept in, beats a location rule. Its weig...
RESEARCH 15 years Licence term ~CHF 380M 2019 auction proceeds
Switzerland
2026-09-19
ComCom's tender for 800-2600 MHz spectrum from 2029 protects three networks; its success depends on restrained reserve p...
RESEARCH 7 years Independent monitoring period 5 Countries covered by new prompt
EU
2026-09-19
The Bundeskartellamt's commitments make Apple's tracking prompt neutral across five EU markets. It shows competition law...
RESEARCH 2 GDPR articles breached €0 Fine imposed
Italy
2026-09-19
The Garante's warning to R.T.I. over Striscia la Notizia turns on unclear AI disclosures, not on satire itself. That is ...