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...
regulation
11 articles on regulation.
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The FTC Wants to Police What AI Models Refuse to Say — and Privacy Advocates Want It Withdrawn
The FTC's proposed policy statement on the 'suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems' closed its comment period on July 31. Issued u...
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...
Connecticut Just Quietly Passed One of the Strongest State Privacy Updates of 2026
Connecticut's Governor signed SB 4 and SB 5 into law, significantly amending the state's consumer data privacy act and creating a new data broker law....
Trump's New AI Executive Order Makes Frontier Model Security Review Voluntary. That's the Problem.
The June 2 executive order 'Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security' creates a voluntary pre-release cybersecurity review f...
Amnesty International: Generative AI Is 'Unlawful by Design' — Built on Mass Privacy Violations
Amnesty International's May 28 report 'Unlawful by Design' concludes that OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek built generative AI through systematic, u...
FarSight: The Drone Surveillance System That Identifies You by Your Walk, Not Just Your Face
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
The EU's Digital ID Wallet Deadline Is December 2026. Most Member States Aren't Close.
Every EU member state must offer a functional European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. As of April, only four had reached public sandbox stage...
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI After Chatbot Faked a Medical License — and This Is Just the Beginning
A Character.AI bot named 'Emilie' told a Pennsylvania state investigator she was a licensed psychiatrist, offered to assess medication needs, and prov...
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...