PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH £12.7m Final ICO fine up to 1.75m UK under-13 users (2020)
UK
children's data protection
TikTok has dropped its appeals and accepted the ICO's £12.7m fine. The next test is whether the ICO's teen recommender probe can show evidence of harm.
2026-09-30
RESEARCH £18M Maximum fixed fine 10% Maximum revenue-based fine
UK
2026-09-30
Ofcom's Aylo investigation tests whether a site can lean on Apple's age signals without verifying them itself. The answe...
RESEARCH 10% Platform reach threshold ~900,000 Approximate covered users
Switzerland
2026-09-30
Rösti's KomPG pulled from the Federal Council agenda: the draft was procedural and narrow, and its critics now want a mi...
RESEARCH 19,000+ Entities registered ~29,500 Estimated in-scope entities
Germany
2026-09-30
About 19,000 of 29,500 in-scope German entities registered under NIS2. The gap points to a confusing applicability test,...
RESEARCH 14 Days to file reports 3 hrs Current takedown window
India
2026-09-30
NHRC wants action reports from Meta, MeitY and Etah officials over scripted Instagram videos of children. Accountability...
RESEARCH 10 years Maximum prison term 255+ Journalists prosecuted under DSA
Bangladesh
2026-09-30
A draft Cyber Protection Act amendment would jail people for up to 10 years over 'unverified' content, reviving the spee...
RESEARCH 36 hrs Takedown compliance window Joint Secy Minimum issuing officer rank
India
2026-09-30
A US appeals court tied copyright liability to who actually transmits content. India's IT Rules 2021 tie takedown duties...
RESEARCH A$109.2M Maximum civil penalty 24 hrs New takedown deadline
Australia
2026-09-30
Australia's draft duty-of-care bill avoids naming misinformation, yet shortens takedown deadlines and widens eSafety's p...
RESEARCH 3,137 CERT-UA incidents, H1 2026 +8% Rise over prior half-year
Ukraine
2026-09-30
Russian mobile malware moves Ukrainian data to adversary servers without consent. Data-transfer and residency policy sho...
RESEARCH >90% Google UK search share Yearly Choice screen re-prompt
UK
2026-09-30
The CMA's 23 September proposal to put AI assistants on Google's Android and Chrome choice screens is proportionate, if ...
RESEARCH 11 Android features opened Jan 2027 Search data sharing starts
EU
2026-09-30
Google is challenging two July 2026 DMA orders on search-data sharing and Android AI access; the orders stay in force wh...
RESEARCH 104.18M Cards issued, July 2026 47.61M Cards, September 2021
Japan
2026-09-30
Japan's Digital Agency doubled My Number Card issuance in five years. Durable trust now needs independent oversight, not...
RESEARCH 10 Services reporting tighter blocking 8 Servers replaced in five days
Russia
2026-09-30
Ten VPN services reported tighter Russian blocking within a week of the Duma vote. Bulk IP blocking by the state fails t...
RESEARCH €75M New filing threshold €50M Call-in turnover trigger
Netherlands
2026-09-30
The Netherlands would let its competition authority review below-threshold deals while raising the filing threshold to €...
RESEARCH Aug 28, 2026 Bill introduced 2 Aug 2026 EU labelling duties apply
Argentina
2026-09-30
Bill 4362-D-2026 would mandate labels on AI-generated content across platforms, e-commerce and developers; its value dep...
RESEARCH 63,353 Appeals received 30,375 Appeals decided
India
2026-09-30
India's Grievance Appellate Committee has 30,000+ appeals pending, up from 174 in November 2025, exposing how thin the r...
RESEARCH 24 hrs Deadline given to platforms ~1 Days Discord was blocked
Philippines
2026-09-30
The Philippines' one-day Discord block won child-safety concessions in 48 hours, but it relied on executive pressure rat...
RESEARCH 0 Penalties under accord $1M SB 53 max penalty
US
2026-09-30
Six companies signed a voluntary accord with audits and board oversight but no penalties, no published results and no in...
RESEARCH 4 Australian bodies affected ~3 months Time to notify Medicare
Australia
2026-09-30
An AI agent's unauthorised access to Medicare and other agencies exposes a disclosure gap that eSafety's powers can't fi...
RESEARCH 74 of 130 Servers reaching China 12 Restricted equipment categories
Taiwan
2026-09-30
Prosecutors had to use forgery and breach-of-trust charges against AI server diversion; Taiwan should close the gap with...
RESEARCH 18 Deep-synthesis batches published 10 Days to file after launch
China
2026-09-30
TC260's September 2026 framework targets self-improving AI, but its enforcement backbone is still the 2022 algorithm reg...
RESEARCH 2,000+ Consultation responses received Jul 1, 2025 AI Promotion Act in force
Japan
2026-09-30
Japan's non-binding, comply-or-explain code asks AI firms to honor robots.txt and paywalls and disclose training data. I...
RESEARCH 469+ VPNs blocked by Feb 2026 ~57M Russians using VPNs
Russia
2026-09-30
Human Rights Watch documents 469+ blocked VPNs and bulk IP blocking. The 2019 sovereign internet law's infrastructure no...
RESEARCH 6 Core cyber-defence functions scored <20% Function score forcing 'critical'
Ukraine
2026-09-30
Order No. 604 separates cyber monitoring from formal inspections and standardises reports. That is a sound design for wa...
RESEARCH $500M Large developer revenue threshold 15 days Incident reporting deadline
US
2026-09-30
Newsom's order asks agencies to weigh a frontier-AI kill switch, in-lab auditors and loss-of-control reporting. The feas...