🔹regulation | technology | global landscape
🗓️ 09/09/2026 | 🛡️ Digital platforms
Ofcom, the UK regulatory authority, launched an enforcement program to verify platforms’ compliance with legal obligations to prevent the dissemination of non-consensual intimate images, including explicit AI-generated deepfakes.
Services must implement hash-matching technologies or demonstrate the use of equally effective alternatives. Non-compliance may result in penalties under the Online Safety Act, including fines of up to 10% of annual global revenue.
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🗓️ 09/09/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence
UNESCO announced three instruments to support the national implementation of artificial intelligence policies: the new Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM 2.0), a global analysis of the results of assessments conducted across countries, and a toolkit to guide public policymakers.
The initiatives seek to support the identification of legal and institutional gaps, broadening the focus of AI governance to include practical implementation measures.
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🗓️ 09/09/2026 | 🛡️ Protection of women and girls online
Ofcom launched a public consultation to assess the evolution of harms faced by women and girls in the digital environment, including image-based sexual abuse, misogyny, sexual violence, stalking, and coordinated harassment.
The initiative also seeks to examine the measures adopted by platforms since the publication of the November 2025 guidance. The deadline for submissions is November 4, 2026.
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🗓️ 09/09/2026 | 🎰 Gaming and gambling
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its first detailed analysis of the money laundering risks associated with online and illegal gambling.
The study identifies practices such as the use of multiple identities, suspicious coordinated betting, smurfing, and opaque beneficial ownership structures. The analysis included contributions from more than 80 jurisdictions.
🔗 Read more: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/risks-of-gaming-and-gambling.html
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🗓️ 10/09/2026 | 🏥 Artificial intelligence in healthcare
The UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare presented recommendations for a regulatory model that is more proportionate to risks, based on the technology lifecycle and coordination among the responsible bodies.
The proposals seek to guide oversight of the use of AI in the healthcare sector. The UK government is expected to issue a formal response to the recommendations.
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🗓️ 10/09/2026 | 🌐 Global governance of artificial intelligence
The Presidency of the United Nations General Assembly announced the beginning of intergovernmental consultations to build common understandings on priority areas of artificial intelligence governance.
The process will also contribute to preparations for the review of the Global Digital Compact, broadening multilateral discussions on the international governance of technology.
🔗 Read more: https://www.un.org/pga/81/documents/speeches/ai-governance-ambassadorial-lunch-10-september-2026/
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🗓️ 14/09/2026 | 🛡️ Digital platform enforcement
Australia approved amendments to the Online Safety Act 2021 that expand the investigative powers of the eSafety Commission. The authority will be able to require documents and evidence from platforms, providers of age-verification technologies, and app stores, as well as summon executives and former employees.
The changes also increase the applicable penalties, with fines of up to AUD 109.2 million for social platforms and AUD 21.8 million for certain violations related to minimum age requirements and age verification.
🔗 Read more: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/news/stronger-online-safety-laws-pass
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🗓️ 14/09/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence and human rights
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for stronger artificial intelligence regulation, with measures such as mandatory incident reporting, verification of system capabilities, and human rights due diligence processes.
The statement highlighted the need to expand the safeguards adopted by states and AI companies beyond exclusively voluntary self-regulation mechanisms.
🔗 Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168326
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🗓️ 15/09/2026 | 📊 Use of artificial intelligence
A survey published by Ofcom revealed that 21% of UK adults already use artificial intelligence tools to access news, with ChatGPT among the main tools used.
The survey also pointed to the growth of YouTube as a source of information, drawing closer to Facebook, while television and radio remain among the media considered most trustworthy.
🔗 Read more: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/attitudes-to-news/one-in-five-brits-using-ai-to-keep-up-with-news
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🗓️ 16/09/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence
The OECD published a preliminary study on the use of agentic artificial intelligence in organizations, based on interviews with industry professionals.
The research examines how these systems are being developed, implemented, and governed in practice, contributing to discussions on the governance challenges associated with the adoption of AI agents.
🔗 Read more: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/agentic-ai-in-organisations_1257a26f-en.html
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🗓️ 17/09/2026 | 📱 Protection of children and adolescents online
The European Commission presented a proposal for rules to strengthen the protection of children and adolescents in the digital environment. The initiative provides for a ban on access to social media by children under 13 and establishes 15 as the minimum age for creating their own accounts.
The proposal also requires providers to demonstrate that their services are age-appropriate and safe by design. For adolescents aged 13 and 14, parent-managed mini-accounts are envisaged, with use limited to one hour per day. The rules cover social media, video platforms, online games, and AI companions and chatbots.
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🗓️ 21/09/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence safety
A United Nations panel called for artificial intelligence safeguards to be adapted in light of new risks to the security and human control of these systems.
The warning was issued following an attack on the Hugging Face platform, which occurred between May and July during a test initiated by OpenAI in which AI agents were involved. The document highlights challenges related to security and the possibility of loss of human control.
🔗 Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168380
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🗓️ 23/09/2026 | ⚖️ Digital markets
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a public consultation on a proposed conduct requirement concerning user choice in Google’s general search services, after designating the company as having Strategic Market Status in the general search and search advertising segments.
The measure is part of the implementation of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 and is accompanied by a survey on choice screens, aimed at assessing the options available to users.
🔗 Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/googles-general-search-services-proposed-user-choice-conduct-requirement
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🗓️ 24/09/2026 | 🛡️ Content moderation
Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, and other signatories published a new set of reports on the implementation of the Code of Conduct on Disinformation, integrated into the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) co-regulatory framework.
The documents cover the period from January to June 2026 and provide information on policies, tools, partnerships, and measures adopted by the platforms on topics such as crisis management and electoral integrity.
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