PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 1,164 Cumulative designated services 21 Generative-AI services added
South Korea
fintech platform regulation
The FSC's 24 new sandbox designations, including 21 generative-AI services, are a proportionate way to test fintech. The sandbox's value depends on how many pilots end in rule changes.
2026-10-15
RESEARCH 5,209 Domains requested for blocking 2,387 Domains Anatel ordered blocked
Brazil
2026-10-15
MP 1.394/2026 turned a regulated betting market into a blocking campaign in days; the court fights show why process and ...
RESEARCH 3 hrs GitHub compliance window 3 Messaging apps in July notices
India
2026-10-15
Kerala High Court has given the Centre four weeks to defend blocking a serverless messenger, and an unpublished order is...
RESEARCH ¥325.7B 2025 special fraud losses 4 Chip-readable ID types
Japan
2026-10-15
Docomo is moving shop ID checks to IC-chip reads as Japan extends identity rules to data-only SIMs. The fraud case is st...
RESEARCH 13 Designated operators in total 4 Newly designated services
Japan
2026-10-15
MIC's 31 August 2026 designation of pixiv, note, Girls Channel and suki-kira.com extends Japan's platform duties to dome...
RESEARCH 50 Minimum data subjects for licence 7 years Maximum prison term
Africa
2026-10-15
POTRAZ's reported inspection drive can reach NGO and union membership data. The statute protects the regulator's indepen...
RESEARCH 45M VLOP user threshold 27 May 2025 Designation withdrawn
EU
2026-10-15
The EU General Court upheld the 2023 DSA designation of Stripchat even though the Commission later withdrew it, a ruling...
RESEARCH 83 Days of data requested ~94% Window before the incident
India
2026-10-15
The Court quashed a Ghaziabad police notice to X for months of a journalist's IP and device data, an interim proportiona...
RESEARCH A$100M+ Maximum penalty 12 months Transition period if passed
Australia
2026-10-15
Giving Parliament the 'serious harm' definition fixes a real flaw, but a seven-sector duty with A$100M penalties still r...
RESEARCH 4 Carriers in bid talks 1/3 Band reserved for government
France
2026-10-15
Orange and three rivals are reportedly weighing a joint satellite-to-phone bid. French users gain most if the EU keeps t...
RESEARCH 60% Over-60s struggling with services 6% Under-40s struggling
South Korea
2026-10-15
Korea's Digital Inclusion Act moves kiosk accessibility duties up the supply chain, but a 60%-vs-6% skills gap shows rul...
RESEARCH ~19.9B ₽ Annual GRChTs subsidy 500,000 ₽ Maximum VPN fine, companies
Russia
2026-10-15
Russia's draft 2027–2029 budget roughly doubles TSPU blocking funds to about 60 billion rubles, but VPN use keeps adapti...
RESEARCH €3.8m AI Office total budget €2.3m Added in Budget 2027
Ireland
2026-10-15
Budget 2027 lifts the AI Office to €3.8m. The sandbox covers the AI Act, GDPR and DSA, so its value depends on how Irela...
RESEARCH 8 States filing suit $40,000 Max penalty per violation
US
2026-10-15
Iowa and seven states allege OpenAI misrepresented ChatGPT's safety. Marketing claims are fair game; a court-ordered hal...
RESEARCH 18,849 Domains blocked (June 2025) 10,918 IPv4 addresses blocked
US
2026-10-15
H.R. 10364 reportedly drops FADPA's VPN and encrypted-DNS exemptions and loosens its piracy test, building the infrastru...
RESEARCH 15 Android boxes in demo 8 of 9 Hardware types 9B handled
Global
2026-10-15
Anthropic's October 2026 research shows small models can handle much of IoT self-replication; the fix is secure-by-defau...
RESEARCH 50°C Peak fridge temperature 300+ Intermarché/Ne tto stores targeted
France
2026-10-15
Attackers forced hundreds of French supermarket freezers into 50°C defrost through internet-exposed legacy controllers; ...
RESEARCH RM6bn Cross-ministry R&D allocation 4,000 SMEs targeted for AI
Malaysia
2026-10-15
Budget 2027 funds AI adoption, a Sovereign AI Cloud and scam-fighting tools. The pro-innovation parts are sound, but the...
RESEARCH 45M Largest-platfo rm user threshold 6% Maximum DSA fine
Africa
2026-10-15
A new KAS study urges South Africa to adopt DSA-style transparency, data access and appeals, a sound base if it stays ti...
RESEARCH 313 Global shutdowns in 2025 4 hours Incident report deadline
China
2026-10-15
A disputed September outage alert for Tibet shows how China's Article 60 emergency powers and CAC incident-reporting rul...
RESEARCH 50% Repaired at Repair Cafés ~2-2.5% Judged reusable at recycling centre
UK
2026-10-15
A Surrey study finds half of items at Repair Cafés get fixed while ~2% at a recycling centre are judged reusable. Britai...
RESEARCH 13 Oct 2026 EDPB statement adopted Rs 2.05 crore Damages sought from Meta
EU
2026-10-15
The EDPB says smart glasses makers cannot push GDPR duties onto wearers. Hardware signals and on-device blurring beat bl...
RESEARCH 4 km Radius of 9 Oct order 15 days Maximum suspension under Rules
India
2026-10-15
The Court told Delhi's internet to run 'unhindered' on 11 Oct 2026 but never examined the secret shutdown orders, so the...
RESEARCH 10% Maximum penalty share ~£15bn Meta theoretical ceiling
UK
2026-10-15
Meta's High Court challenge to Ofcom's worldwide-revenue rules raises a real proportionality question, even though the h...
RESEARCH 8% Core investment obligation 12% Opt-out flexibility threshold
Germany
2026-10-15
The MedienInvestVG would force streamers to spend 8% of German turnover on local content. Its sub-quotas are the weak po...