The EU AI Act's Big Day Came and Went — Here Is What Actually Became Enforceable on 2 August
Europe spent two years preparing for 2 August 2026. Five days before it arrived, the Digital Omnibus pushed the high-risk rules to December 2027. But ...
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Chat Control Is Back Until 2028, and the AI Act's Big Date Came and Mostly Went
Member states approved the temporary CSAM scanning derogation in early August, restoring voluntary message scanning until April 2028 after a Parliamen...
Claude Is Now Watermarking Its Text — Invisibly, Worldwide, and Not Because America Asked
Anthropic has begun embedding imperceptible machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude, plus C2PA-signed provenance metadata on generated...
Fortnight in Review: A Delete Button That Works, an Age Gate That Won't, and Seams Coming Apart
Two weeks that produced the best privacy mechanism America has ever shipped and the worst architecture Congress has advanced, in the same news cycle. ...
The EU AI Act's Big Day Arrived — and the Biometric Surveillance Rules Weren't On It
August 2, 2026 was supposed to be the day high-risk AI obligations became enforceable across the EU — police facial recognition, employment screening,...
The GDPR Rewrite Stalled — Cyprus Pulled Its Text, and Ireland Inherited the Mess
The Cyprus Presidency withdrew its Digital Omnibus compromise text on June 30 after it became clear no qualified majority existed. Ireland took over t...
The World's Strongest Privacy Law Is Being Quietly Dismantled: How Big Tech Rewrote the EU's Digital Omnibus
The EU invented GDPR. It set the global standard for data protection, inspired privacy laws on six continents, and put real fines on companies like Me...