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Global Banking & Finance Review Sep 21 latest coverage Sep 22

Google Fined €403 Million by Irish Regulator Over Location Data Use

In effect
Law note: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Comprehensive Regime

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Cobram Courier Sep 21

Irish regulator fines Google $A650m over location data

In effect also carried by 1
Law note: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Comprehensive Regime
Also reported by cryptobriefing.com, Kuwait Times, The Straits Times, Malay Mail, The Hans India, The Guardian, NewsBytes, Daily Sabah, trtworld.com, France 24, Fortune, timesnownews.com, Arab News PK, CyberSecurityNews, EasternEye, fastcompany.com, The Record from Recorded Future News, East Bay Times, ET Now, Mathrubhumi English, Telangana Today, NDTV Profit, streamlinefeed.co.ke, United News of Bangladesh, The Cyber Express, TheReport.live, Zee Business
CalMatters Sep 18

Newsom orders new AI safety rules for state agencies and revives ‘kill switch’ idea

Proposed also carried by 1
Also reported by California State Portal | CA.gov, Politico, EIN News, SuaraGarut.ID, TheWrap, San Francisco Chronicle, Wansom AI, The New York Times, Ventura County Star, hsjchronicle.com, Santa Maria Times, ABC7 Bay Area, edhat, Law Commentary, PYMNTS.com, blockchain.news, The Hindu, LatestLY, Open Magazine, The Times of India, Sierra Sun Times
Digiday Aug 4, 2026 Paywalled

WTF is a stealth crawler?

Proposed
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Jul 31, 2026

AI Legislative Status

Proposed
Mumbai Mirror Feb 12, 2026

The great AI book heist

Enjoined

Coverage is gathered by UnGovr's news tracker from publisher feeds, and a story is kept only when its subject is a development in AI, scraping, privacy, or cybersecurity law. On cybersecurity that means the legal duty: a reporting deadline moving, a disclosure tested against one, a suit over what a company said about its security. A breach, a vulnerability or a patch is not itself a development in the law, so incident coverage is left off this page. Every story links to its publisher and the headline is theirs, each one resolved to the jurisdiction whose law it concerns and to LexLint's own note on the instrument where there is one. A story LexLint cannot attribute to a jurisdiction is left off this page rather than attributed to a guess. Coverage is not a finding: a story here is journalism, not a lint result.