PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH £12.7m 2023 fine now final ~1.75m Estimated under-13 users
UK
children's privacy
TikTok has dropped its appeals of the ICO's 2023 £12.7m children's-data fine, letting a tribunal ruling on 'special purposes' stand and freeing up scrutiny of its teen recommender system.
2026-09-25
RESEARCH ~400,000 Chips powering UAE flagship data center $7B Nvidia's Poolside licensing deal
UAE
2026-09-25
Abu Dhabi's TII builds AI from scratch while national champion G42 adopts Nvidia's free models — a split that is proport...
RESEARCH 2–1 FCC vote to repeal cyber rule 18 months NTIA deadline for standards
US
2026-09-25
Warner and Cruz's new bill trades the FCC's scrapped telecom cyber mandate for voluntary standards — the right instinct,...
RESEARCH NIS 12,000 Karting company fine NIS 20,000 Initial proposed fine
Israel
2026-09-25
A NIS 12,000 fine against a karting company shows Israel's privacy regulator calibrating penalties to severity, not maxi...
RESEARCH 65,280 Content Not Removed 93% Platform Compliance Rate
Malaysia
2026-09-25
MCMC's 65,280 unremoved scam and gambling posts are prompting a shift from reactive takedowns to proactive filtering dut...
RESEARCH 90% Publisher ad server share $91B Google's max Canada penalty
Canada
2026-09-25
Weeks after a Virginia judge spared Google's ad exchange from divestiture, Canada's Competition Bureau is still pressing...
RESEARCH 1,000+ Organisations compromised 500,000+ Credentials stolen
Australia
2026-09-25
Two Perth men accused of running a global supply-chain hacking syndicate expose the limits of ransomware-payment reporti...
RESEARCH $14.8B Uber's Delivery Hero offer ~40% HungerStation' s Saudi delivery share
Saudi Arabia
2026-09-24
The pending $14.8bn Uber-Delivery Hero deal folds HungerStation into Uber's Saudi footprint, but competition law has no ...
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 ...