Switzerland's Streaming Investment Mandate Collected Two-Thirds of What It Required in Year Two
Streamers and broadcasters owed CHF32.7M under Switzerland's Lex Netflix; they invested CHF19.9M, deferring CHF12.8M to 2027.
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Dutch Privacy Regulator Warns Cycle-Tracking Apps Without Opening a Formal Case
The AP's Aug. 4 warning restates existing GDPR duties on health-data apps and holds an investigation in reserve rather t...
Indonesia's Mandatory Facial-Recognition SIM Registration Outran Its Own Privacy Law
Jakarta's biometric SIM mandate replaced ID-card fraud with a new risk: a national faceprint database with no independen...
Ontario's First AI Discipline Ruling Sanctions the Lie, Not the Chatbot
A Toronto lawyer's six-month suspension for AI-hallucinated citations turned on her dishonesty to a judge, not her use o...
AGCOM's Referendum Data Confirms Algorithms Now Outrank Editors as Italy's Political Information Gatekeepers
AGCOM found algorithm-curated platforms beat edited news 34.2% to 22.4% for Italy's March 2026 referendum — but its own ...
Israel's National AI Plan Creates an Ethics Council, Not a Law, and Cements PMO Control
The Aug. 13 plan adds an advisory ethics body but no binding AI statute, formalizing a year of untendered Prime Minister...
Ukraine's Hate Crime Bill Has Sat in Committee a Year — Its Vague Online Content Ban Is Part of Why
Bill 13597 is stalled while the EU flags Kyiv's falling rule-of-law ranking and its still-undefined hate speech standard...
France's Top Court Didn't Kill the Under-15 Social Media Ban — It Told Paris to Write One That Can Survive Contact With Privacy Law
The Conseil constitutionnel struck down France's under-15 social media ban for being both too broad on speech and too va...
DIFC Bets AI Governance Scales Faster Through Accredited Certifiers Than Through Its Own Regulator
Dubai's financial free zone proposes letting outside accreditation bodies certify AI systems, easing a bottleneck at its...
Canadian Music Publishers Join Bid to Strip AI Co-Authorship From a 2021 Copyright Registration
Music Publishers Canada's intervention in CIPPIC v. Sahni asks Canada's Federal Court to rule that only humans can be co...
France's MiCA Deadline Turns a Licensing Backlog Into Criminal Exposure
France's crypto transition period ended July 1 2026; unlicensed firms now risk prison, fines, and site blocking — some f...
South Korea Moves AI Training Data From Statutory Consent to Regulatory Discretion
A PIPA amendment awaiting a floor vote would let the PIPC approve non-consensual use of raw personal data for AI trainin...
A 153GB Leak From the LiteLLM Breach Shows Supply-Chain Defense Still Runs on Voluntary Disclosure, Not Law
PyPI and a threat-intel firm contained and exposed a breach touching 2,500 companies faster than any pending federal rep...