Compliance

Privacy & Data 6 min Electronic signatures in Singapore and Malaysia, and the documents the law still excludes In Singapore a typed, drawn or pasted signature can meet a legal signature requirement if the method identifie... PR Priya Nair 30 Sep ASEAN Tech 11 min Two ASEAN countries tie your broadband to the speed you were sold, and only one checks Malaysia requires 90% of your subscribed fibre speed and collects the results quarterly. Thailand sets 70% of... SA Sarah Chew 20 Sep ASEAN Tech 10 min A helmet can meet the standard Philippine law names and still be illegal there The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia all build their helmet rules on the same UN regulation, but only Malay... SA Sarah Chew 20 Sep Health & Wellness 7 min ASEAN requires an SPF number and no UVA rating at all The regional labelling guideline devotes a single sentence to ultraviolet A, so a shelf in Singapore or Kuala... AM Amelia Wong 19 Sep Home & Living 7 min Singapore's cooling-off period covers almost nothing you buy The five-day cancellation right reaches four kinds of contract — chiefly a sale made during an uninvited visit... AM Amelia Wong 18 Sep Business 6 min Singapore's Small Claims Tribunals shut two years before your claim expires The tribunals lose jurisdiction two years after the cause of action accrued, while a contract claim lives for... EV Eva Chin 18 Sep Home & Living 7 min Singapore's Safety Mark covers 33 kinds of product, and power banks are not one The SAFETY Mark is required only on 33 categories of Controlled Goods. Power banks are not among them and are... AM Amelia Wong 17 Sep Privacy & Data 7 min Singapore's data protection law does not cover the government The PDPA's data protection obligations do not bind ministries, departments or gazetted statutory boards, so th... PR Priya Nair 17 Sep Home & Living 4 min Indonesia prints one food date and bans selling past it Indonesian labelling law prescribes a single phrase, "Baik digunakan sebelum" — best used before — and defines... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Consumer Tech 4 min A barcode does not tell you where a product was made The chain message that reads country of origin off a barcode's first three digits has the standard against it.... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Consumer Tech 4 min No international rule says your passport needs six months left Airlines worldwide enforce a six-month passport validity margin as though it were international law. ICAO Anne... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Cybersecurity 6 min You Now Have 24 Hours to Tell the EU Your Product Is Being Exploited The Cyber Resilience Act's reporting duty went live on 11 September. The clock starts when you become aware, w... PR Priya Nair 12 Sep Business 5 min California's AI Audit Law Is in Force and Binds Nobody Until 2029 AB 1405 creates a registry of AI auditors and bans unregistered ones. Both obligations start 1 January 2029, w... EV Eva Chin 11 Sep Business 7 min The UK Cyber Bill Leaves Out AI Vendors, and Also the Government The bill can order a power station to stop using a particular AI model, while imposing no duty on whoever buil... EV Eva Chin 3 Sep AI & ML 7 min The EU AI Act's High-Risk Rules Were Delayed. Its Transparency Rules Started on Time. The August headlines said the AI Act had been delayed. What was delayed is the high-risk tier; the general-pur... MA Maya Lin 30 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Vietnam's AI Law Has Been In Force Since March, And The Deadlines Start Next Year Southeast Asia's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March, applies to foreign as well as domestic entiti... SA Sarah Chew 23 Aug Health & Wellness 8 min Twenty-One US States Now Regulate Clinical AI, And They Do Not Agree Thirty-three healthcare AI laws were enacted by the end of 2025, from more than 250 bills introduced across 47... AM Amelia Wong 22 Aug Business 8 min California Now Requires The Big AI Providers To Publish A Detector For Their Own Output SB 942 became operative on 2 August. Generative AI services with more than a million monthly users must ship a... EV Eva Chin 22 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000. The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended fo... PR Priya Nair 22 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Seventeen Licences You Did Not Choose This site installs 302 packages under 17 distinct licences. 23 carry copyleft obligations, effectively all fro... MA Maya Lin 20 Aug AI & ML 6 min What You Are Trusting When You Download a Model We checked the 1,000 most-downloaded models on the Hugging Face Hub. 99% ship a model card, so documentation i... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min GDPR at the 2026 Midpoint: The Real Signal Is Operational Security Enforcement Mid-year 2026 stock-takes put cumulative GDPR fines at around €7 billion since 2018, but the headline total is... PR Priya Nair 2 Jul