France's Arcom Doubles Down on Porn-Site Blocking, But the Traffic Just Moves Downstream
Arcom targeted 31 more sites for skipping SREN age checks, bringing its total to 66 — while minors migrate to smaller platforms VPNs can still reach.
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Indonesia's Permendag 19/2026 Turns Search Rankings Into an Industrial Policy Tool
Indonesia now legally requires marketplaces to rank domestic products first — a proportionate goal pursued through a dis...
Egypt's Data Law Puts Ordinary CCTV Cameras in the Same Licensing Track as Cross-Border Transfers
Egypt's PDPC classifies routine visual surveillance as a licensed activity ahead of an Oct. 31 deadline, but its applica...
Kenya's ODPC Bets on ISO Certification While Its Core Registration Mandate Remains Unevenly Enforced
The regulator's new ISO 9001:2015 quality push is welcome, but it can't substitute for consistent enforcement of the KES...
Italy's AI Decrees Pair a Sound Governance Model With a Facial Recognition Rule Its Own Privacy Regulator Calls Unlawful
Rome's June 2026 decrees name AgID and ACN as AI Act regulators, but the Garante says a police biometrics provision brea...
Australia's Doubled Social Media Fines Skip Past an Untested Enforcement Gap
Canberra doubled minimum-age penalties to AUD 99M and widened eSafety's subpoena power before ever testing the original ...
South Korea's $37.4M KT Fine Shows Evidence-Tampering, Not the Breach Itself, Draws the Harshest Response
PIPC fined KT ₩53.98B for a femtocell breach affecting 16,647 users, but criminally referred it for deleting logs — a di...
China's Weekly App-Naming Notices Show PIPL Enforcement Has Become Routine, Not Exceptional
Three CAC-led notices named 139 apps in three weeks, marking a shift from occasional PIPL rulings to a standing complian...
The UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Copies a Model That Isn't Working Yet
The UK will bar under-16s from social media by Spring 2027, following an Australian model whose own early data shows mos...
Indonesia's 8% Ride-Hailing Commission Cap Took Effect Before Its Own Legal Text Was Public
Jakarta's ride-hailing commission cap took effect before its legal text was public, leaving enforcement to police report...
The EU's €890 Million Google Fine Repeats a Pattern: Real Remedies, Token Penalties
Brussels' third DMA non-compliance decision forces immediate product changes at Google while keeping fines a fraction of...
Taiwan's AI Risk Framework Bets on Regulator Discretion Over a Brussels-Style Rulebook
MODA's July 7 classification framework operationalizes the AI Basic Act by handing sectoral regulators discretion instea...
Bangladesh's Cyber Security Amendment Restores the Content-Blocking Powers Its Own Reform Had Just Curbed
A BNP government elected on a reform mandate has widened BTRC's takedown and data-demand powers a year after the interim...