1 September 2026
Germany's Draft Law on AI in Migration Raises Rights and Bias Concerns
techpolicy.press Germany's cabinet approved the KIMVG draft allowing AI in visa, residence and asylum procedures, including automated cross-checks of applicants' statements against online sources.
California lawmakers pass bill governing lawyers' use of AI
reuters.com SB 574 now goes to Newsom; it bars delegating legal work to generative AI and requires verifying citations and disclosing AI use in court filings.
31 August 2026
Privacy Reform – Consultation on Exposure Draft legislation
consultations.ag.gov.au Australia opened consultation on an exposure draft Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 aimed at AI and wearables. Submissions close 18 September.
FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme
ftc.gov The complaint alleges Amazon quietly turned its "second price" ad auctions into first price from 2019, extracting tens of billions from over a million sellers.
Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act
ec.europa.eu The Commission designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine and Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms, giving them until January 2027 to comply.
28 August 2026
US court rules Pentagon ban of Anthropic unlawful
euractiv.com A US federal judge held that the government-wide ban on Anthropic products was unlawful retaliation for the firm refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons uses.
The US got Meta to change Instagram and Facebook. Europe wants in.
politico.eu The Commission signalled Meta's $18bn US settlement falls short of its DSA demands, which target autoplay, infinite scroll and personalised feeds themselves.
Musk's AI company sues its users as victim lawsuits over Grok deepfakes mount
politico.com xAI sued two users criminally charged over Grok-made CSAM, seeking its own legal costs and reputational damages for their breach of X's terms of service.
27 August 2026
Poland asks EU to fine Meta €250 million over scam ads
politico.eu Poland's digital minister asked the Commission to fine Meta €250m and investigate six DSA breaches over scam ads, citing a 13% removal rate for reported fakes.
26 August 2026
IA : la CNIL met à jour son outil de traçabilité des modèles publiés en source ouverte
cnil.fr The CNIL shipped an English version of Genmod, which traces open-weight AI model lineage to show which derived models may have memorised the same personal data.
Attorney General James Secures Up to $17.1 Billion and Groundbreaking Reforms from Meta to Protect Children on Social Media
ag.ny.gov Meta will pay up to $17.1bn to 51 US attorneys general and cap under-18 use at two hours a day, with age verification and opt-out non-algorithmic feeds.
25 August 2026
Publication of the decision of the National Bank of Belgium concerning Wise Europe SA pursuant to Article 98/1
nbb.be The NBB publicly named Wise Europe over unremedied anti-money-laundering failings, the first decision published under Belgium's name-and-shame regime.
Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK
politico.eu Reform UK would replace UK GDPR with a light-touch law modelled on New Zealand's Privacy Act, claiming EU adequacy would survive the change.
ANPD multa TikTok em R$ 153,7 milhões por falhas na proteção de dados de crianças e adolescentes
gov.br Brazil's ANPD fined ByteDance R$153.7m for processing minors' data with no legal basis, ordering deletion and a compliance plan that suspends ads in the logged-out feed.
24 August 2026
How a 17th-century Irish law is shielding Big Tech from class actions in Europe
politico.eu Ireland's 1634 ban on third-party litigation funding has left just one collective redress case filed there; a Law Reform Commission report is due this year.
Consultatie Wet platformwerk (implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/2831)
internetconsultatie.nl The Dutch consultation on the Wet platformwerk closed with 86 public responses; the bill is a pure transposition of the directive, due in national law by 2 December 2026.
21 August 2026
Uber fined nearly 825 million euros for automated driver blocking
autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl The Dutch DPA fined Uber €824.99m for automatically deactivating drivers over fraud flags and low ratings without human review. Uber is appealing.
U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone's Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk
nytimes.com US prosecutors charged Samuel Tunick with obstruction for entering a duress passcode that wiped his phone during a CBP airport search.
TikTok agrees to $400 million US children's privacy settlement
reuters.com TikTok and ByteDance settled the DOJ's COPPA suit for $400m: $300m now, $100m once the 2019 Musical.ly consent decree is vacated.
EU's push for watermarking won't worsen AI writing, experts say
euractiv.com Under the AI transparency code, watermarking applies only to texts over 200 tokens; its co-chairs say quality loss is confined to very short outputs.