PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH €1.65bn Dual-use exports authorised 2025 €5bn Intel Leixlip investment
Ireland
semiconductor export controls tech
The EU's 14 September 2026 dual-use update adds chip-tool and AI-chip controls. Ireland, with a €5bn Intel expansion, should keep licensing fast and transparent.
2026-10-23
RESEARCH A$49.5M Maximum corporate penalty 5 Platforms under investigation
Australia
2026-10-23
As a parliamentary inquiry examines online radicalisation of minors, the evidence from Australia's under-16 social media...
RESEARCH 3,611 Ransomware complaints, 2025 +14% Year-on-year complaint growth
Taiwan
2026-10-23
Taiwan's incident-reporting duties bind designated critical operators; extortion of ODM/OEM suppliers falls into a gap t...
RESEARCH 44% Judicial operators using AI 9% Have AI guidelines or training
Mexico
2026-10-23
Mexico's Supreme Court began using AI for jurisdictional work on 7 September 2026 with no public tool name or safeguards...
RESEARCH ~120,000 Lyric requests in six months 30 days Consultation window
India
2026-10-23
As a US judge weighs Anthropic's fair-use claim over song lyrics, DPIIT's proposed compulsory blanket licence would fix ...
RESEARCH 2018 First emirate AI health policy 2019 Federal health ICT law
UAE
2026-10-23
Abu Dhabi's health regulator ties any future AI clinician authority to task-level evidence and permanent physician overs...
RESEARCH ₦5M Initial non-compliance fine ₦4.87B 2021 surveillance plan budget
Africa
2026-10-23
Roadside phone searches and the 2019 interception rules both rest on thin legal ground; Nigeria needs warrant-based, jud...
RESEARCH 4 Systems offline 72 hrs CIRCIA incident report deadline
US
2026-10-20
A cyberattack on BAE Systems froze bankruptcy noticing nationwide. The lesson is contractor resilience, not new mandates...
RESEARCH 45M DSA VLOP user threshold >62M Commission's Stripchat estimate
EU
2026-10-20
The General Court upheld Stripchat's VLOP designation, ruling the Commission may reject a provider's own user counts. No...
RESEARCH 200M+ Phones with older app Dec 2022 Fraud law in force since
China
2026-10-20
China's new anti-fraud AI app is optional on paper. The older National Anti-Fraud Center app shows how optional state ap...
RESEARCH 56 Expert commission recommendations 44% Eligible users with working eID
Germany
2026-10-20
Berlin's cabinet outline would bar under-13s from social networks until EU rules arrive, but enforcement rests on a wall...
RESEARCH 18 months Phased compliance period 6,915 Consultation inputs received
India
2026-10-20
IBM's MoU with MeitY Startup Hub and its 'Bharat Core' stack treat sovereignty as operational control. India's light-tou...
RESEARCH 15+ People targeted in 2026 411 MEPs backing spyware reforms
EU
2026-10-20
Pegasus infections days before Serbia's 25 October vote expose a gap: EU spyware safeguards bind members, not candidates...
RESEARCH 23 Suspect accounts alleged ~1,400 Users hit in 2019
US
2026-10-20
A judge refused to hold NSO in contempt because Meta withheld how it detected 23 suspect accounts. Courts alone cannot p...
RESEARCH 2 hours Proposed removal deadline 137 pages Length of Court order
India
2026-10-20
The Court's CSAM framework swaps all-or-nothing safe harbour for fines and a shared hash database, while rejecting a chi...
RESEARCH Sh662B Digital economy GDP contribution ~88M Mobile SIM subscriptions
Kenya
2026-10-20
Kenya's trade chief wants an African digital trade hub, but the draft National Payment System Bill could decide whether ...
RESEARCH ~19M Lines in first phase ~127M Registered mobile lines
Egypt
2026-10-20
After 18 arrests and a prosecution referral of all four operators, Egypt's NTRA is re-verifying millions of lines; the f...
RESEARCH ~19.87bn ₽ Annual TSPU subsidy, 2027 ~60bn ₽ Three-year total planned
Russia
2026-10-19
Russia's 2027–2029 draft budget nearly doubles annual funding for the TSPU filtering network, paying to enforce a VPN cr...
RESEARCH 3 Days from registration to hold 4 Different reasons NIXI gave
India
2026-10-19
Delhi High Court has issued notice over NIXI's no-notice suspension of a NEET protest site; four shifting reasons show ....
RESEARCH 45+ Al Jazeera devices targeted 3.77B Bids placed, Mar-Jun 2026
Global
2026-10-19
Citizen Lab's AdFection report shows Candiru-linked ads targeted Al Jazeera devices via mainstream exchanges. Fix the ad...
RESEARCH 5% CRTC base contribution US$1.25M Minimum annual streamer payment
Canada
2026-10-19
As Washington targets Quebec's French-content law, Ottawa is dropping its own CRTC levy. Canada risks a policy that cult...
RESEARCH 5 days Serious-crash report deadline 20 years GM consent order term
US
2026-10-19
DOT's non-binding AV strategy promotes cross-state data sharing and keeps crash reporting, but is silent on in-cabin cam...
RESEARCH 6,300+ Forum participants 1.2M+ Saudis trained in AI
Saudi Arabia
2026-10-19
Riyadh hosted UNESCO's AI ethics forum without an AI statute; a proportionate, risk-based law could turn its voluntary e...
RESEARCH R5m Maximum RICA fine 10 years Maximum prison term
South Africa
2026-10-19
A former Vodacom risk chief wants facial SIM verification. The narrower fix, accountable distributors and tighter sectio...
RESEARCH ~231M Devices already registered 6 Device categories covered
Nigeria
2026-10-19
The NCC's device verification framework enforces an existing law and says it will not monitor communications. Its credib...