Switzerland's Top Court Closes the Door on Online Debtor-Shaming Registries
Federal Administrative Court upholds FDPIC's order against Inkasso-Team's debtor registry, confirming nFADP bars public shaming even to recover debts.
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FTC Chooses Disclosure Over an Outright Ban in Its First Move on Personalized Pricing
The agency's Aug. 19 policy statement uses existing Section 5 power to require price-personalization disclosures, not a ...
Meta's $17.1 Billion Settlement Writes Internet Age-Verification Rules Without Congress
A landmark state settlement forces Meta into universal age-checks and usage caps — bypassing the legislative process bui...
Beijing Gets Delivery Platforms to Stop the Clock at Red Lights, Not to Change Who Sets It
Meituan, Taobao Flash Purchase and JD.com agreed to soften delivery-time algorithms after Beijing talks, but riders rema...
Ukraine's Drone War Still Runs Through One Man's Veto
Zelensky honored Musk with Ukraine's top civilian award while lobbying him to lift a Starlink restriction Kyiv cannot ov...
Ukraine Sets a 70% Backup-Power Target for Mobile Towers, Betting Battery Mandates Can Outrun Russian Strikes on the Grid
Kyiv's new 2026-2027 program triples the share of base stations required to survive 72 hours without grid power, but fun...
Germany's €79.3M Digital ID Wallet Bet Is Ahead of Both the EU and Its Own Citizens
Germany targets a January 2027 EUDI Wallet launch even as only 12 of 27 EU states are on track and half of German and Fr...
AGCOM's Third DNS Block Shows Italy's Age-Verification Law Can Reach Foreign Sites, But Only With a Blunt Tool
AGCOM DNS-blocked Escort Advisor for skipping age checks — its third such order shows Italy can enforce the Caivano Decr...
California Passed 24 AI and Privacy Bills in One Night — the Risk Is the Pace, Not Any Single Bill
Newsom has until Sept. 30 to act on two dozen AI and privacy bills from California's session-closing rush, as a federal ...
TikTok's $400 Million COPPA Settlement Shows Existing Privacy Law Still Works
DOJ's record children's-privacy settlement with TikTok enforces a 1998 law as written — a model for proportionate regula...
Italy's 26 GHz Auction Reserves Half Its Lots for Incumbents — A Test of Whether Spectrum Policy Can Serve Both Coverage and Competition
Italy's €180M mmWave auction learns from 2018's excesses but reserves half its lots for existing WLL holders, favoring d...
China's New PIPL Q&A Formalizes Compliance Rules Companies Were Already Guessing At
CAC's July 2026 Q&A locks in explicit consent, 3-year assessment renewals, and tighter resume-export rules — mostly codi...
Egypt Builds Its Own Military Crypto While Civilian Encryption Stays on a Government Leash
Cairo touts homegrown encryption for its air defense network, but the same legal regime treats civilian encryption as so...
Nigeria's Telecom Cyber Rules Are Sound in Principle, Vague on the Cost Operators Will Bear
NCC's CRF-NCS guidance adds real accountability for telecom cybersecurity, but its budget and data-retention mandates le...
South Africa's Gambling Regulator Wants to Block Websites Without the Law to Do It
The National Gambling Board is procuring a blocking system for offshore betting sites, but no statute authorises adminis...
Estonia Answers Europe's Social Media Panic With A Research Council, Not A Ban
While 25 of 27 EU states signed a child social-media pact, Estonia convened researchers instead of legislating age limit...
California Carves Linux Out of Its Age-Verification Law — But Leaves the Mandate Itself Intact
AB 1856 exempts open-source operating systems from California's age-signal law, but Windows, macOS, iOS and Android stil...
Global Finance's Top Regulator Just Named AI-Driven Cyberattacks Its Biggest Near-Term Risk — and the Safeguards Aren't There Yet
FSB chair Andrew Bailey told G20 finance ministers frontier AI is now the financial system's most immediate cyber threat...
South Korea Walks Back Mandatory Face Scans for New Phone Lines, But the Legal Basis Is Still Being Written After the Fact
Seoul made facial recognition optional for SIM activation after regulators objected — but plans to legalize it in Octobe...
Indonesia's New Drone Rules Double as a Pitch for a UN Aviation Council Seat
Jakarta is drafting cargo and passenger drone regulations ahead of a 25-year ICAO Council bid — the diplomacy shouldn't ...
France's Constitutional Council Strikes Down Its Under-15 Social Media Ban as Disproportionate, Not Illegitimate
France's top court voided a blanket under-15 social media ban on Aug. 14 for its scope and unsafeguarded age checks — no...
India Is Building the Surveillance Network EFF Just Called Unreformable — Without Even Flock's Guardrails
EFF wants US license-plate surveillance eliminated; India's own ANPR/facial-recognition buildout runs on no dedicated st...
Brazil's Privacy Law Has No Answer for the Chinese EVs Now Chauffeuring Its Own Government
BYD vehicles now ferry Brazil's Presidency, Congress and top courts, but the LGPD was never built to police what a car u...
Bangladesh's New Telecom and Data Laws Undo the Surveillance Oversight Its Interim Government Built
Eight rights groups say Bangladesh's 2026 telecom, data-protection and data-management laws gut 2025-era safeguards and ...
Philippines Privacy Regulator Drops Blanket Impact-Assessment Rule for a Risk-Based Threshold Test
NPC's draft circular limits mandatory privacy impact assessments to eight high-risk categories, tightening scrutiny on A...