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Bottom Line Up Front: While Australia's December 10, 2025 social media age ban captured global headlines, a quieter but equally consequential regulation takes effect on December 27, 2025: mandatory age verification for search engines. With search providers facing up to $49.5 million in fines per breach and
Breaking Analysis: Platform updates terms to remove "harmful content" under EU/UK pressure while partnering with Israeli intelligence-linked verification firm December 19, 2025 | Privacy Analysis In what marks a significant shift from Elon Musk's much-touted "free speech absolutism," X (formerly Twitter) has quietly updated
On the same day the DOJ released heavily-redacted Epstein files, both chambers of Congress introduced legislation that could destroy the internet as we know it—all while claiming to protect children. The irony is as dark as it gets. The Perfect Storm of Misdirection December 19, 2025 will be remembered
When your advertising platform's internal documents reveal calculated tolerance for fraud, your third-party risk management framework just became woefully inadequate. As cybersecurity and compliance professionals, we spend considerable effort building frameworks to assess third-party risk, vendor due diligence processes, and controls to protect our organizations from fraud exposure.
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After nearly a decade of deliberation, including seven years of development and five different drafts, India has now fully operationalized its first comprehensive data protection law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), 2023. This is a pivotal and consciously chosen legislative moment for a country with an expanding digital
The Fundamental Clash Between Two Legal Philosophies The UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) represents one of the most comprehensive attempts to regulate online content at a national level. Passed in October 2023 and implemented throughout 2024-2025, the Act places extensive duties on social media platforms and search services
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The global conversation on artificial intelligence regulation has long been dominated by the giants: the market-driven United States, the rights-based European Union, and the state-centric China. Into this landscape steps an ambitious and unexpected player. In December 2025, Vietnam’s National Assembly passed its first-ever comprehensive Law on Artificial Intelligence,
When €3 billion in GDPR fines alone isn't enough to teach Big Tech a lesson Introduction: The Year Regulators Stopped Playing Nice If 2024 was the year of regulatory preparation, 2025 was the year enforcement went nuclear. European data protection authorities alone imposed over €3 billion in GDPR
A federal court granted NetChoice a preliminary injunction against Act 901, protecting free speech and reaffirming that Arkansas cannot use creative drafting to evade the First Amendment. December 17, 2025 Executive Summary In a decisive victory for digital rights and constitutional protections, U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted
Executive Summary for Compliance Professionals As Chief Compliance Officers, CISOs, Data Protection Officers, and Risk Management professionals, you need to understand that the current wave of internet regulation represents the most significant shift in compliance obligations since GDPR. Congressional action on nearly 20 bills—including KOSA, the App Store Accountability
December 17, 2025 | Compliance & Privacy Analysis Modern vehicles have transformed into sophisticated data collection machines, quietly harvesting information about your daily movements, driving habits, and personal routines. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO) have introduced the Auto Data Privacy and Autonomy Act to combat what privacy
Bottom Line Up Front: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense, and TCL, alleging their smart TVs secretly spy on viewers through Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology that captures screenshots every 500 milliseconds and sells that data to advertisers without meaningful consent—marking the