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A TikTok Loss at the EU Court Would Fix the DMA's 'Gateway' Test, and Alphabet, Apple and Amazon Would Live Under It

Advocate General Biondi backs TikTok's gatekeeper status. The ruling to come will set the DMA's gateway test for US firms already facing a trade fight over the law.

2026-10-16

France 2026-10-16

CNIL's Google Closure Rewards Disclosure Over Consent Gates, but the Account-Creation Question Stays Open

France's CNIL closed its Google injunction after Gmail ads were relabelled and sign-up disclosure added, while reserving...

UK 2026-10-16

The Legal Aid Agency Breach Shows That Keeping Data Forever Is a Security Failure, Not a Safe Default

Records back to 1978 and probation files were taken in the LAA hack. Retention discipline and legacy-system retirement m...

Global 2026-10-16

Ad-Delivered Spyware Shows Export Controls Stop at the Ad Exchange, and Ad-Tech Security Is the Missing Layer

Citizen Lab and Confiant say Discover-Tech's Controlium platform delivered zero-click spyware through ads. The fix lies ...

Argentina 2026-10-16

Argentina's No-Preventive-Regulation AI Pitch Is Sound on Rules but Leaves Liability Unanswered

Milei's UN pledge not to regulate AI preventively is defensible, but 'automated companies' with limited liability need c...

South Korea 2026-10-16

Korea's PIPC Is Building Investigative Capacity After Two Record Fines. The Next Test Is Whether It Rewards Basic Security

After the Coupang and KT penalties, Korea's privacy regulator is adding investigative muscle. Its enforcement should tar...

Malaysia 2026-10-16

Malaysia's Under-16 Account Rule Targets the Wrong Risk: Minister Fahmi Says Adult Contact Is the Threat, but the Code Is Built Around ID Checks

Malaysia's Communications Minister says the aim is to stop adults reaching children, yet the Child Protection Code's hea...

Indonesia 2026-10-16

Indonesia's Autonomous Vehicle Law Revision Needs a Data Chapter Before 2027, Because Article 56 of the PDP Law Cannot Carry the Load Alone

Indonesia's traffic law revision targets autonomous vehicles, but vehicle-generated data still falls under a PDP Law who...

Germany 2026-10-16

Germany's New Data Protection Chief Wants Tighter Data-Outflow Enforcement, but the Real Test Is Whether Enforcement Replaces New Legislation

Commissioner Moritz Hennemann's call to step up enforcement on third-country data flows targets data brokers; the GDPR a...

Turkey 2026-10-16

Turkey's KVKK Has Fenced In Workplace Biometrics, but the Article 28 Carve-Out Leaves Public-Space Face Recognition Unexamined

KVKK's 27 August clarification confirms the attendance-tracking ban is narrow and that the security exemption has limits...

Germany 2026-10-16

Germany's Prepaid SIM ID Rewrite Should Make the EU Wallet One Option on a Closed List, Not the Gate

Berlin's TKG amendment reportedly fixes prepaid SIM ID methods in law and admits the EU Digital Identity Wallet. That fi...

Singapore 2026-10-16

Singapore's Layered AI Safety Push Is the Right Design, but It Needs Published Tests to Count as Evidence

IMDA's three AI safety initiatives follow the 'no single safeguard' premise. Layering beats a single statute, but only i...

Canada 2026-10-15

Quebec's Judicial AI Guidelines Get the Core Principle Right but Leave Judges Without a Map for Permitted Use

Quebec's four chief justices bar judges from delegating reasoning to AI. A prohibition-only text may push use undergroun...

Switzerland 2026-10-15

Swiss Lawmakers Want a Tougher Geneva AI Summit, but Verifiable Results Need Domestic Rules First

A cross-party motion asks Bern to set sharper goals for the 2027 Geneva AI Summit while its own Council of Europe AI Con...

India 2026-10-15

India's Parliament Wants Data Centres Built and Counted, but Its Offshore-Data Alarm Rests on Figures MeitY Itself Disowns

A Parliamentary panel urges verified data-centre statistics and an offshore-data assessment, but its sovereignty case re...

South Korea 2026-10-15

Korea's 1,164-Service Sandbox Works as a Pipeline to Permanent Rules, but It Needs to Show How Often Exemptions Become Law

The FSC's 24 new sandbox designations, including 21 generative-AI services, are a proportionate way to test fintech. The...

Brazil 2026-10-15

Brazil's Betting Ban Shows the Cost of Blocking by Ministerial List Under a Provisional Measure

MP 1.394/2026 turned a regulated betting market into a blocking campaign in days; the court fights show why process and ...

India 2026-10-15

India's BitChat Block Tests Whether Section 69A Can Reach an App With No Content to Remove

Kerala High Court has given the Centre four weeks to defend blocking a serverless messenger, and an unpublished order is...

Japan 2026-10-15

Docomo's Chip-Based ID Checks Are a Sound Fraud Control, Provided Japan Keeps the Data Footprint Small

Docomo is moving shop ID checks to IC-chip reads as Japan extends identity rules to data-only SIMs. The fraud case is st...

Japan 2026-10-15

Japan's Platform Act Reaches Creator Sites, and Its Proportionality Now Depends on the Threshold

MIC's 31 August 2026 designation of pixiv, note, Girls Channel and suki-kira.com extends Japan's platform duties to dome...

Africa 2026-10-15

Zimbabwe's Data-Protection Inspections Are Legitimate, but Their Reach Over Civil-Society Membership Lists Needs Hard Limits

POTRAZ's reported inspection drive can reach NGO and union membership data. The statute protects the regulator's indepen...

EU 2026-10-15

The General Court Judges Stripchat's VLOP Designation by the Data the Commission Had in 2023, and That Rule Is Defensible but Costly

The EU General Court upheld the 2023 DSA designation of Stripchat even though the Commission later withdrew it, a ruling...

India 2026-10-15

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A TikTok Loss at the EU Court Would Fix the DMA's 'Gateway' Test, and Alphabet, Apple and Amazon Would Live Under It

CNIL's Google Closure Rewards Disclosure Over Consent Gates, but the Account-Creation Question Stays Open

The Legal Aid Agency Breach Shows That Keeping Data Forever Is a Security Failure, Not a Safe Default

Ad-Delivered Spyware Shows Export Controls Stop at the Ad Exchange, and Ad-Tech Security Is the Missing Layer

Argentina's No-Preventive-Regulation AI Pitch Is Sound on Rules but Leaves Liability Unanswered

Korea's PIPC Is Building Investigative Capacity After Two Record Fines. The Next Test Is Whether It Rewards Basic Security

Malaysia's Under-16 Account Rule Targets the Wrong Risk: Minister Fahmi Says Adult Contact Is the Threat, but the Code Is Built Around ID Checks

Indonesia's Autonomous Vehicle Law Revision Needs a Data Chapter Before 2027, Because Article 56 of the PDP Law Cannot Carry the Load Alone

Germany's New Data Protection Chief Wants Tighter Data-Outflow Enforcement, but the Real Test Is Whether Enforcement Replaces New Legislation

Turkey's KVKK Has Fenced In Workplace Biometrics, but the Article 28 Carve-Out Leaves Public-Space Face Recognition Unexamined

Germany's Prepaid SIM ID Rewrite Should Make the EU Wallet One Option on a Closed List, Not the Gate

Singapore's Layered AI Safety Push Is the Right Design, but It Needs Published Tests to Count as Evidence

Quebec's Judicial AI Guidelines Get the Core Principle Right but Leave Judges Without a Map for Permitted Use

Swiss Lawmakers Want a Tougher Geneva AI Summit, but Verifiable Results Need Domestic Rules First

India's Parliament Wants Data Centres Built and Counted, but Its Offshore-Data Alarm Rests on Figures MeitY Itself Disowns

Korea's 1,164-Service Sandbox Works as a Pipeline to Permanent Rules, but It Needs to Show How Often Exemptions Become Law

Brazil's Betting Ban Shows the Cost of Blocking by Ministerial List Under a Provisional Measure

India's BitChat Block Tests Whether Section 69A Can Reach an App With No Content to Remove

Docomo's Chip-Based ID Checks Are a Sound Fraud Control, Provided Japan Keeps the Data Footprint Small

Japan's Platform Act Reaches Creator Sites, and Its Proportionality Now Depends on the Threshold

Zimbabwe's Data-Protection Inspections Are Legitimate, but Their Reach Over Civil-Society Membership Lists Needs Hard Limits

The General Court Judges Stripchat's VLOP Designation by the Data the Commission Had in 2023, and That Rule Is Defensible but Costly

India's Supreme Court Says Police Cannot Dredge a Journalist's X Data From Before the Alleged Offence

Australia's Duty of Care Bill Gets the Feed Opt-Out Right but Leaves eSafety's Reach Wide

A Four-Carrier Bid for Europe's 2 GHz Band Is Only Worth Backing if the Auction Stays Open