PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH $14.8B Uber's Delivery Hero offer ~40% HungerStation's Saudi delivery share
Saudi Arabia
gig worker platform rights
The pending $14.8bn Uber-Delivery Hero deal folds HungerStation into Uber's Saudi footprint, but competition law has no tool for the gig-labor question it raises.
2026-09-24
RESEARCH A$109.2M Max civil penalty 16+ Algorithm opt-out age
Australia
2026-09-24
The US Embassy wants American platforms exempt from Australia's new duty-of-care law — but the real flaw is vague harm d...
RESEARCH 21 Distributors fined by FPB 25+ FPB child-safety cases, 2024/25
South Africa
2026-09-24
Minister Malatsi told Parliament there's no proof under-16 bans keep kids offline — and the FPB's R16m fine sweep sugges...
RESEARCH £18M or 10% Maximum possible fine £1.05M Largest fine issued to date
UK
2026-09-24
Ofcom is investigating whether Aylo tested Apple's device-level age signal for Pornhub before May's rollout, not whether...
RESEARCH ~84 days Days to disclose breach 3 systems Other systems flagged
Australia
2026-09-24
OpenAI waited ~84 days to disclose its AI agent's breach of an Australian government portal — the failure is disclosure ...
RESEARCH 16 groups EU letter signatories 6 months Metadata retention window
EU
2026-09-24
European civil society wants Brussels to threaten Canada's GDPR adequacy over Bill C-22, but the bill's text already pro...
RESEARCH 24 hours CRA early warning deadline €15M / 2.5% Max CRA reporting fine
UK
2026-09-24
The Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 reporting duty, live since Sept 11, binds UK IoT firms harder and faster than UK l...
RESEARCH ¥60 million FY2027 AI budget request 6 Judges on pilot committee
Japan
2026-09-24
A ¥60 million FY2027 request funds AI drafting help for civil judges — after a pilot found the same tool can entrench bi...
RESEARCH 15% Scrapped streamer contribution rate 3% Scrapped digital services tax
Canada
2026-09-24
Carney scrapped the digital services tax and CRTC's streamer levy to appease Washington, but held firm on discoverabilit...
RESEARCH 500+ Reports received >90% Cases resolved
Singapore
2026-09-23
500+ reports and a 90% resolution rate in two months suggest narrow, victim-triggered takedown powers can work better th...
RESEARCH 18M+ Telenor Myanmar customers 1,253 Phone numbers' data disclosed
Global
2026-09-23
Norway charged Telenor over Myanmar data handovers and a sanctioned surveillance sale — a landmark case with a real chil...
RESEARCH 6 Platforms under freeze order 6 months Freeze duration
Thailand
2026-09-23
TCCT's blanket freeze on six platforms' merchant fees substitutes price control for the disclosure rules ETDA finalized ...
RESEARCH ~80% Xiaohongshu fraud cases down ~55% Xiaohongshu-li nked losses down
Taiwan
2026-09-23
An 80% drop in Xiaohongshu-linked fraud looks decisive until you notice national fraud fell too — and Article 42 has no ...
RESEARCH 65+ Accounts geoblocked 5 years Max prison term cited
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-23
X quietly began complying with Saudi requests to geoblock 60+ dissident accounts in July 2026, after months of publicly ...
RESEARCH 2-0 FTC vote to publish Sept 25, 2026 Extended comment deadline
US
2026-09-23
FTC's 2-0 policy statement says undisclosed algorithmic pricing may violate Section 5 — but it deliberately stops short ...
RESEARCH 3 Regulatory functions merged 12 Bills moving same week
Africa
2026-09-23
The Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Bill lets carriers intercept communications on suspicion, with only after-th...
RESEARCH 153M+ IDs exposed in Nexus breach 6 hours CERT-In incident reporting window
India
2026-09-23
A 153-million-record US ID-scan breach exposes the accountability gap in India's DPDP Act: harsh fines for vendors, unch...
RESEARCH 3 Azure Availability Zones 68MW to 440MW+ Datacenter Capacity Growth
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-23
Microsoft's November 2026 Saudi Arabia East region ties Azure to Vision 2030 and data residency law — sovereignty built ...
RESEARCH 2.6M Daily Cyberattacks Recorded +6% Cyberattack Growth Rate
Taiwan
2026-09-23
Minister Lin Yi-jing's Washington trip shows Taipei countering China's AI-narrative pressure with corpora and cyber coop...
RESEARCH 1x per year Important data assessment cadence 20 working day Report filing deadline
China
2026-09-23
CAC's first operational rulebook on data risk assessment gives firms a predictable process, but leaves 'important data' ...
RESEARCH 6 hours CERT-In reporting window 7 principles AI Governance Guidelines principles
India
2026-09-23
MeitY plans to tighten AI incident reporting timelines and content, layering a new regime atop CERT-In's 2022 six-hour c...
RESEARCH 3 Platforms seeking Ninth Circuit stay 1 hour Daily feed cap for minors
US
2026-09-23
Google, Meta and TikTok ask the Ninth Circuit to pause SB 976's feed restrictions after a judge called personalization a...
RESEARCH 12,000+ Inboxes compromised 50 Sites seized by court order
US
2026-09-23
The EvilTokens takedown disabled an AI phishing ring fast — a private-enforcement model that works, but still needs due-...
RESEARCH $1.93M Top capital tier $38,610 Entry-level capital tier
Kenya
2026-09-23
Kenya's draft payments law sets a $1.93M capital floor for e-money issuers and blocks debt from counting toward it, favo...
RESEARCH 78,000+ Couples married via Diia ~40% Share of marriages registered online
Ukraine
2026-09-23
Diia's Marriage Online service now cross-checks death records automatically, letting widowed Ukrainians remarry without ...