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🗓️ 16/10/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence safety
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with federal cybersecurity frameworks, published ten voluntary practices for incident readiness and response during the training and evaluation of advanced artificial intelligence systems.
The recommendations cover incident preparation, detection, response, recovery and communication, with special attention to agents capable of taking actions without being instructed, circumventing controls or operating without adequate human oversight.
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🗓️ 19/10/2026 | 🎰 Gambling and betting advertising
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) published initial guidance on the new rules that, beginning on 1 January 2027, will prohibit gambling advertisements featuring notable people, including current or former professional athletes, celebrities, influencers and other public figures.
The restriction will cover different media, such as television, radio, news websites, online games and social media.
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🗓️ 20/10/2026 | 🤖 Artificial intelligence governance
UNESCO and Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Digital Economy formally launched the implementation of the updated version of the Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM 2.0), a methodology designed to assess national capacity for the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
The process will assess the country’s governance structures and institutional capacities, with the aim of formulating recommendations for a human-centred AI ecosystem aligned with international standards and UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI.
🔗 Read more: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/sri-lanka-launches-unescos-ai-readiness-assessment-methodology-ram
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🗓️ 20/10/2026 | 🎰 Illegal gambling and betting market
The third phase of research by the UK Gambling Commission analysed the factors that lead consumers to use unlicensed online gambling websites. The study identified motivations such as seeking services not linked to the GamStop self-exclusion system, fewer personal data requirements and fewer regulatory restrictions.
The research also identified four distinct profiles of illegal market users. The findings may contribute to improving enforcement, prevention and regulatory design strategies, taking into account the factors that influence consumers’ migration to unlicensed operators.
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🗓️ 20/10/2026 | 🛡️ Financial scams on digital platforms
A study commissioned to support the supervision and enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA) analysed how financial scams are distributed and amplified across online services.
The research examines the role of advertising, recommendation systems, content moderation, monetisation, inauthentic identities and deceptive content, including the use of generative artificial intelligence. The document compiles evidence to support regulatory action, without constituting a decision on violations by specific platforms.
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🗓️ 21/10/2026 | 🛡️ Digital platform enforcement
The European Commission opened an investigation to determine whether Booking.com adequately assessed and mitigated the risks related to the circulation of fraudulent advertisements and phishing scams on its platform.
The proceedings also examine whether listings that pay for prominent positions in search results are identified sufficiently clearly as advertising, in accordance with the obligations set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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🗓️ 22/10/2026 | 🛡️ Protection of children in the digital environment
Ofcom reported that it is reviewing changes announced by TikTok to its Community Guidelines and formally requested documents and information from the platform.
The investigation assesses compliance with the obligations set out in Article 12 of the Online Safety Act, particularly the duties to prevent children from encountering certain categories of harmful content and to ensure the effectiveness of age verification and age estimation mechanisms.
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🗓️ 22/10/2026 | 🛡️ Online safety and child protection
In its first statutory report prepared under section 63 of the Online Safety Act 2023, Ofcom recommended including content related to body stigma and depression among the categories of content harmful to children.
Any inclusion depends on a decision by the UK government. The report also found that most of the children surveyed had encountered at least one piece of harmful content over a four-week period and identified no significant reduction, in aggregate terms, during the first nine months of enforcement of the child safety duties.
🔗 Read more: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/report-on-content-harmful-to-children
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🗓️ 28/10/2026 | 🎰 Enforcement against the illegal gambling and betting market
The UK Gambling Commission published an analysis of anonymised banking data to identify transactions associated with illegal operators and link them to information from surveys conducted with the same individuals.
The study seeks to expand the evidence base used to formulate policies to combat the unlicensed market. Among the findings, consumers with transactions identified as involving illegal operators had a higher incidence of elevated Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) scores. The authority cautioned, however, that the data do not make it possible to establish causal relationships or reliably estimate the total size of the illegal market.
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