Biometric Processing Privacy Code 2025
Sets binding privacy rules under the Privacy Act 2020 for agencies that use biometric technologies such as facial recognition to verify, identify or categorise people.
Sets binding privacy rules under the Privacy Act 2020 for agencies that use biometric technologies such as facial recognition to verify, identify or categorise people.
Sets EU-wide risk-based rules for AI systems, banning certain practices, imposing requirements on high-risk systems, transparency duties for some AI, and obligations for general-purpose AI model providers.
Commission guidelines on Article 50 of the AI Act clarifying who must disclose AI interactions, mark AI-generated content in machine-readable form, and label deepfakes and certain AI-generated text.
Requires data brokers to register with the California Privacy Protection Agency and to process consumer deletion requests submitted through a single state-run deletion mechanism.
Bars websites, apps and services from letting users nudify images or videos of identifiable people and from advertising such tools, with a private right of action and attorney general civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation.
Prohibits installing or operating cryptocurrency kiosks in Minnesota from August 1, 2026, requires operators to remove them and pay out customer funds by December 31, 2026, and repeals the prior kiosk regulations.
Allows Minnesota financial institutions to offer and perform virtual-currency custody services for customers.
Restores, until 3 April 2028, a temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that lets messaging and other communications providers voluntarily detect, report and remove online child sexual abuse material, after the earlier interim regulation expired on 3 April 2026.
Commerce policy omnibus that enacted the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act requiring social media platforms to publicly disclose engagement limits, ranking signals, usage statistics and product experiments, and barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic.
Amends the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking regulation to provide a legal basis for AI Gigafactories of more than 100,000 advanced AI processors and to expand quantum computing activities.
Bars social media platforms from giving users under 18 algorithmic addictive feeds or overnight notifications without parental consent, with age determination rules set by the Attorney General.
Proposed regulation that amends the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, NIS2 and the Data Act to simplify EU rules on cookie consent, incident reporting and data sharing, and folds several data laws, including the Data Governance Act, into the Data Act.
Amends the AI Act to delay high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028, extend SME relief to small mid-caps, simplify AI literacy and registration duties, widen AI Office oversight, and ban AI nudification and CSAM generation.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
Sets obligations and prohibitions for large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, such as bans on self-preferencing and anti-steering, and requirements on interoperability and data use.
Commission decision fining Google 890 million euros under the Digital Markets Act: 460 million for self-preferencing its own services in Google Search and 430 million for anti-steering restrictions on Google Play.
Creates the Load Forecast Accountability Act to scrutinize electricity demand forecasts driven by data centers and other large loads.
Draft Commission guidelines under Article 6(5) of the AI Act with practical examples of AI systems that should or should not be classified as high-risk, published for consultation before formal adoption.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Creates South Korea's comprehensive AI framework, with a national AI strategy committee and basic plan, industry support, and obligations for high-impact and generative AI such as user notice, labeling, risk management and local representatives for foreign firms, backed by fines of up to 30 million won.
Implements the AI Basic Act with detailed rules on high-impact AI criteria and impact assessments, safety obligations for large AI systems, domestic representative thresholds and the schedule of administrative fines.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
The court granted final approval of the authors' class action settlement with Anthropic over its use of pirated books.
Sets due diligence obligations for online intermediaries and platforms on illegal content, transparency, advertising and protection of minors, with extra systemic risk duties for very large online platforms and search engines supervised by the Commission.
First Digital Services Act non-compliance decision, fining X 120 million euros for deceptive design of its blue checkmark (Article 25(1)), a deficient advertising repository (Article 39) and failing to give researchers access to public data (Article 40(12)).
Regulates AI companion and other human-like emotional interaction services, barring virtual intimate relationship services for minors and requiring safeguards against emotional dependence and separate consent before chat data is used for training.
Would restrict addictive social media feeds for minors.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Requires AI companion operators to make disclosures, maintain suicide and self-harm response protocols, protect minor users, and report annually to the Department of Health starting in 2028.
Pauses state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers for up to one year while the state develops regulatory standards and a generic environmental impact statement.
Sets out the government's plan under the AI Promotion Act for promoting AI research, development, use and trustworthiness, revised in 2026 as a second-phase plan.
Prohibits certain harmful uses of AI-generated realistic digital imitations of individuals and provides civil actions and remedies for people injured by them.
Requires certain social media platforms to let users delete their accounts and permanently erase associated personal information, and bars deceptive practices that obstruct deletion.
Would require online platforms to add safeguards for minors, including limits on sexual material, parental controls on social media and games, and disclosures by AI chatbots.
Sets Nigeria's national plan for adopting artificial intelligence, with pillars on infrastructure, talent, research, ethical governance and public sector use.
Bars teachers from using AI tools to generate evidence of professional practice used in their evaluations and limits AI use in the teacher evaluation process.
Bars health insurers from using automated processes or algorithms that bypass review of the billing professional's information to downcode medical claims.
Voluntary code that helps providers of generative AI systems mark and detect AI-generated content and helps deployers label deepfakes and certain AI-generated text, to meet Article 50(2), (4) and (5) of the AI Act.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sets cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting obligations for medium and large entities in critical sectors and requires member states to supervise and enforce them.
Special session health omnibus that requires social media platforms, starting July 1, 2026, to show a mental health warning label with crisis resources each time a user accesses the platform, under guidelines set by the Department of Health.
Requires electric utilities to create a separate rate class and special rules for large load customers such as data centers so other ratepayers are protected from higher costs.
Regulates the research, development, provision, deployment and use of AI systems in Viet Nam with risk-based obligations, human oversight, an AI sandbox and a national AI development fund.
Commission action plan to promote safe use of advanced AI, including pre-market evaluation capacity for AI models under the AI Act, strengthen EU cyber resilience, and scale up AI capabilities for cybersecurity.
Requires large frontier AI developers to publish and follow safety frameworks, undergo annual independent third-party audits, and report critical safety incidents.