Laws and Policies

Meta now requires advertisers running campaigns in India to declare if their ads use AI-generated or AI-edited media, adding an “AI info” label to boost transparency under the country’s new synthetic content rules.

Six specialized institutions — Navy Cyber Lab (Delhi), DFSL Mumbai, NFSU Goa, State FSL Jaipur, CFSL Kolkata, and BSF Central Drone Forensic Lab — have been notified as Examiners of Electronic Evidence under Section 79A of the IT Act. Published in the Gazette on 13 July 2026, these notifications significantly strengthen and decentralize India’s digital forensics infrastructure across computer, mobile, and drone domains.

India's RBI has quietly built one of the world's most layered anti-fraud systems: the .bank.in domain, MuleHunter.AI, a telecom fraud signal, and tougher authentication. What each means for your digital wallet, and the one gap it still leaves.

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When you authorise a scam payment yourself, are banks legally required to refund you? The answer splits sharply by country. A verified, country-by-country comparison of the world's scam-reimbursement laws.

The Delhi High Court upheld a nationwide, time-limited block of Telegram over NEET-UG 2026 exam-leak misuse, ruling that Section 69A can switch off an entire app, not just a post. What the judgment said, and why it matters.

The UIDAI is phasing out the legacy mAadhaar application as it transitions users to a new, updated mobile app infrastructure for Aadhaar-related services.

Free Platform as a Service Providers, Vercel (Defendant No. 2) and Netlify (Defendant No. 4), that turn source code into live, accessible websites — were each directed to take down specific clusters of infringing URLs within 36 hours. A new interim order against IndiaMART impersonators shows how judicial systems can hold modern web infrastructure accountable — and what regulators elsewhere should take note of

The European Commission published draft guidelines on what counts as 'high-risk' AI, even as a new deal pushes the EU AI Act's toughest obligations back to 2027.

India's CERT-In urges critical, internet-facing flaws be patched or mitigated within 12 hours, warning AI has collapsed the gap between disclosure and attack.

Autonomous AI agents act with little oversight. With the EU AI Act deadline looming and Singapore the first to respond, how the world is racing to govern them.

As of mid-2026, global governments have moved from experimental policy to strict mandatory frameworks for managing synthetically generated information.