Japan
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Japan's new Tokutei Zairyu Card merges the Residence Card and My Number card for a record 4.1 million foreign residents, opt-in by design.
2026-08-05
Ukraine
2026-08-05
Diia.AI's new voice mode, built with Kitsoft and ElevenLabs, launched before Ukraine's rewritten data protection law cle...
Nigeria
2026-08-05
SERAP warns a Nwoko-sponsored bill lets the NDPC pull the plug on non-compliant social media platforms in 30 days, no co...
Saudi Arabia
2026-08-05
Saudi Arabia has blocked Qatar's beIN/TOD for the entire 2026 World Cup with no stated legal basis, echoing the piracy d...
Canada
2026-08-05
Ottawa's Competition Bureau is drafting detailed criteria for prosecuting wage-fixing and no-poach pacts — three years a...
South Africa
2026-08-05
A Home Affairs tender for field biometric devices exposes the gap between South Africa's data-protection law and how it ...
Israel
2026-08-05
The PPA's first Amendment 13 fine, ₪256,000 against Meuhedet, targets a two-month reporting delay rather than the underl...
China
2026-08-05
Beijing's April 2026 rules ban virtual companions for minors and add usage nudges — sound child-safety policy layered on...
Canada
2026-08-05
Music Publishers Canada's intervention in CIPPIC v. Sahni argues Canada's five-year-old AI co-authorship registration sh...
France
2026-08-05
ARCEP's draft decision would add AI emissions, model specs, and compute/energy data to its annual survey, with no penalt...
EU
2026-08-05
Brussels's July 2026 driver-camera mandate keeps data on-device by design — but design, not fresh statute, is doing the ...
Canada
2026-08-05
Bell's new AI tool flags spoofed calls behind Canada's fake-arrest-warrant scams faster than CRTC's 2021 STIR/SHAKEN man...
Italy
2026-08-05
Domyn's EU-backed frontier model is probably headed past the AI Act's 10^25 FLOP threshold, stripping the open-source ex...