Policy & Regulation
Digital policy, data sovereignty, tech regulation and government digitalization in Algeria and the region.
Policy & Regulation
The DEFIANCE Act: America’s Federal Civil Remedy for Deepfake Victims
The Senate unanimously passed the DEFIANCE Act, creating a federal civil action for deepfake victims with up to $250K damages. Full legislative analysis.
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Colorado’s AI Act: America’s Most Comprehensive State AI Law Faces Its Reckoning
Colorado SB 24-205 mandates impact assessments and bias testing for high-risk AI. Delayed to June 2026, it faces amendments and federal preemption threats.
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AI Employment Discrimination: The Impossible Patchwork of Hiring Algorithm Laws
Illinois, Texas, California, Colorado, and NYC all regulate AI in hiring differently. Here's the compliance landscape facing every US employer in 2026.
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After the Suicides: The Global Push to Regulate AI Companion Chatbots
After teen suicides linked to AI chatbots, California, Congress, and courts worldwide are racing to regulate AI companions. Here's the full legal landscape.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Pentagon: AI Ethics Meets National Security
In early 2026, tensions escalated between AI company Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense over usage restrictions embedded in Anthropic's Claude models.
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Mandatory AI Audits: Governments Are Now Requiring Third-Party Checks on AI Systems
For most of the past decade, AI developers operated in a regulatory grey zone. They could deploy systems that decided who got a loan, who passed a job screening, or who received a medical referral — with no external check on whether those systems actually worked as claimed.
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How Governments Buy AI: Procurement Rules Reshaping the Market
Governments have quietly become the largest single class of AI buyers on the planet. Defense agencies, tax authorities, health ministries, border control operations, and social welfare departments are all deploying AI at scale — and the procurement rules governing those
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The Facial Recognition Crackdown: Bans, Restrictions, and a World Diverging
Cameras recognize your face. They compare it against a database.
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Teen Social Media Bans: Which Laws Are Surviving Court Challenges in 2026
Governments around the world are drawing a legal line between adolescents and social media platforms. Australia's law banning users under 16 from major platforms took effect in late 2024 and became the most aggressive age restriction the world had seen from a democratic government.
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National AI Strategies in 2026: Who Is Leading, Who Is Falling Behind, and What Works
Every major economy now has a national AI strategy. The OECD counts over 60 countries that have published some form of AI policy framework since 2017.
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Digital Identity Wallets: EU eIDAS 2.0, Apple Wallet ID, and What Is Coming
Your passport, driving licence, bank card, health insurance number, and university degree all live in a drawer or a wallet made of leather. The world is spending 2026 figuring out how to move every one of those documents into a smartphone app — and who controls the
