PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 26% Fee on outside payments 5 yrs Since law took effect
South Korea
app store regulation
KMCC found Google and Apple violated Korea's 2021 anti-steering law by charging 26% fees on outside payments, but named no penalty after five years of non-enforcement.
2026-08-16
RESEARCH $2B Deal value reversed Apr 27, 2026 Unwind order issued
China
2026-08-16
China ordered a completed $2B Meta acquisition of a Singapore-incorporated startup reversed, based on the founders' and ...
RESEARCH 16+ Russian regions affected ~20 July days with shutdowns
Estonia
2026-08-16
Leningrad Oblast's July shutdowns spilled into Narva's networks via signal bleed, a problem for public information, not ...
RESEARCH ~50 Servers allegedly diverted 7 People detained in probe
Taiwan
2026-08-16
A Keelung prosecution of an Nvidia employee exposes Taiwan's missing AI chip export law; the Foreign Trade Act fix shoul...
RESEARCH Jul 1, 2026 Vietnam law takes effect 75.01% TikTok's Tokopedia stake
India
2026-08-16
Vietnam's new e-commerce law licenses livestream sellers instead of forcing TikTok-style structural separation, a model ...
RESEARCH 85% Workloads on public cloud 90%+ Data hosted offshore
Nigeria
2026-08-16
NITDA's new cloud rules target $850M in offshore payments, but the framework asks hyperscalers to build locally rather t...
RESEARCH R5M Fine set aside by court Nov 2024 Enforcement notice issued
South Africa
2026-08-15
After two High Court defeats, the Information Regulator wants the SCA to rule that exam numbers alone make matric result...
RESEARCH 14 Jun 2027 EU transposition deadline 3 New criminal offenses proposed
EU
2026-08-15
Hubig's draft criminalizes deepfakes and GPS stalking ahead of the EU's 2027 deadline, but skips cyberharassment and def...
RESEARCH ~8,000 Firms under Cyberbeveiligingswet ~500 Critical entities under Wwke
Netherlands
2026-08-15
Dutch NIS2/CER laws taking effect put ~8,500 firms under 24-hour reporting and director-level fines — a proceduralist al...
RESEARCH 4 of 4 National operators referred 25 years Prison sentence in trigger case
Egypt
2026-08-15
NTRA's prosecution referral of all four Egyptian carriers enforces existing consent law, but its biometric fix may not s...
RESEARCH $1.4T Meta's stated exposure 29 States pursuing data claims
US
2026-08-15
A first-of-its-kind trial pits 29 states' COPPA claims against Meta, testing how far courts can dictate platform design.
RESEARCH 5 Firms designated paramount €59M Amazon disgorgement order
Germany
2026-08-15
The Bundeskartellamt's 2025/26 report flags AI-driven dominance and data-pooling as enforcement risks, layered onto an a...
RESEARCH 100,000 AI accelerator target ≤5nm Chip fab node target
Israel
2026-08-15
Israel's new National AI Strategic Plan skips standalone AI legislation for sectoral rules and a proposed mutual-recogni...