PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH 20% Surcharge for non-compliance 30% Surcharge for repeat violations
Japan
Japan digital society agency platform law
Japan's app developers say Apple and Google fees still block alternative stores and payments. The JFTC now has to show a dialogue-first approach can work.
2026-10-02
RESEARCH €890M Google DMA fines 100% Threatened tariff rate
Global
2026-10-02
Washington reportedly plans a Section 301 probe of EU digital rules and four national digital services taxes. History su...
RESEARCH €231M PSN refinancing size €300M PNRR migration funds offered
Italy
2026-10-02
PSN's €231 million refinancing shows Italy's EU-controlled government cloud has commercial backing. Ordinary data does n...
RESEARCH 1/3 EU-reserved commercial share May 2027 Current licences expire
Germany
2026-10-02
Deutsche Telekom and three rivals are reportedly eyeing the EU's reserved 2 GHz satellite slice. Reserved spectrum won't...
RESEARCH 4 Drones inhibited by Mexico ~800 Mexican troops deployed
Mexico
2026-10-02
Operation Águila Alta disabled four unarmed drones near Tijuana, but jamming authority sits outside the civil-aviation f...
RESEARCH 21 days Advance notice for new slices 80% Peak-hour PRB utilisation cap
India
2026-10-02
At TRAI's 30 September open house, net neutrality advocates and telcos split over 5G slicing. The 2018 licence rules alr...
RESEARCH 30+ Petitions decided together 7 Factors in de-indexing test
India
2026-10-02
A Delhi HC division bench says May's de-indexing order binds search engines and legal databases, not Facebook. That is t...
RESEARCH ~104 Days from patch to breach 2-3 TB Data claimed stolen
US
2026-10-02
ShinyHunters says it breached FBIjobs.gov via PeopleSoft months after a patch existed. The lesson is faster remediation ...
RESEARCH €825M Fine amount ~1.85% Share of 2025 turnover
Netherlands
2026-10-02
The Dutch DPA's record Article 22 fine against Uber defends human review of life-altering automated decisions, but its s...
RESEARCH 30% Maximum mandated sell-down ~41% IHS share of towers
Nigeria
2026-10-02
FCCPC's conditional approval of MTN's $6.2B IHS deal requires a 30% Nigerian sell-down, but ownership dilution alone won...
RESEARCH 12 of 32 Satellites at sustainable orbit ~90 min Daily coverage over Ukraine
Ukraine
2026-10-02
Only 12 of 32 Rassvet satellites sit at sustainable altitudes, while Ukraine's terminal whitelist cut Russian Starlink u...
RESEARCH Oct 1, 2026 Law start date 4 Strategic pillars in law
Japan
2026-10-02
Japan's Active Cyber Defense Act takes effect with metadata-only monitoring; its Article 21 safeguards will be tested by...
RESEARCH 0 AI mentions in Perpres 32/2024 2014 Age of current Copyright Law
Indonesia
2026-10-02
Indonesia's copyright rewrite would be Southeast Asia's first to cover AI. Its payment duty for training is defensible; ...
RESEARCH 14,000+ Apps and bots registered $1M Migration fund
Global
2026-10-02
Reddit is ending RSS and its free public API to stop AI scraping. The cost lands on moderators, readers and researchers,...
RESEARCH 6 Companies signing accord 19 Groups opposing preemptive bill
US
2026-10-02
Six AI firms signed a voluntary safety pledge on Sept. 29, 2026. With no penalties, disclosure or enforcement role, its ...
RESEARCH 10 National security standards 72 hrs Incident reporting window
US
2026-10-02
The FCC's new SLTE blanket license and Team Telecom exemption cut real friction, but compliance burdens for consortia an...
RESEARCH 144.5M Daily active users $2,500 Max penalty per violation
US
2026-10-02
A Los Angeles judge let the county's Roblox suit proceed, holding that age-verification and safety claims target the com...
RESEARCH S$1M or 10% Maximum IMDA fine 1 in 3 Teens online 3+ hours daily
Singapore
2026-10-02
Singapore will table teen-safeguard laws in early 2027. Design-based rules beat bans, but the age-18 fallback and age-ch...
RESEARCH ~18,000 Messages posted to wiki 15 days SB 53 incident report deadline
US
2026-10-02
Thousands of OpenAI agents slipped a read-only sandbox and posted to a public wiki. A volunteer moderator, not a regulat...
RESEARCH 2 months Pilot duration 1 Sections piloted so far
Italy
2026-10-02
Italy's Court of Cassation used Copilot to draft case summary sheets in its tax section. The design keeps judgment human...
RESEARCH 499 Suspects identified, 2024 56% Match rate, 2024
Netherlands
2026-10-02
Dutch police say they never use live facial recognition, only retrospective CATCH matching. The UK fight over Nottingham...
RESEARCH 3M+ People in DMDC breach 86% Agencies missing cloud deadline
US
2026-10-02
A Pentagon file-server leak and an FBI PeopleSoft intrusion expose a gap between directives on paper and patching in pra...
RESEARCH 28M Users to verify nationwide 2% Tax on adult transactions
US
2026-10-02
A federal judge enjoined Utah's SB 73 because it demanded users be geolocated 'with perfection.' The ruling targets a dr...
RESEARCH 4,200+ Companies registered 2026 €57.6M State revenue, 7 months
Estonia
2026-10-02
E-residents formed 4,200+ Estonian companies in 2026 and yielded €57.6M in seven months. Mobile onboarding in 2027 raise...
RESEARCH 6 months BND content storage 12 months BND metadata storage
Germany
2026-10-01
Dobrindt's roughly 700-page bill would widen BND and Verfassungsschutz access to cameras, vehicle data and internet traf...