Tech laws, regulation, antitrust, courts and government policy.
Denmark’s culture minister, Zenia Stampe, put a bill before the Folketing on 8 October banning publication of realistic digital imitations of a person’s appearance, voice and movements without consent. She proposes effect from 1 January 2027. It is the second attempt: the prior version lapsed in Danish elections, after the 31 March 2026 and 1 … Read more
Changing banks is often delayed by recurring bills: electricity, insurance, salary and rent. Spain has a regulated, free service with fixed deadlines that makes both banks move those arrangements. You request it only at the new bank; all holders sign. It is free between providers in Spain, and the completion date cannot precede six business … Read more
Pennsylvania has imposed disclosure duties on certain synthetic-media advertisements, but the measure Governor Josh Shapiro signed on October 22 is narrower than some coverage implied. The Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, Act 99 of 2026, takes effect December 21, sixty days after signing. It targets deceptive commercial use of AI, not AI use itself. Key … Read more
World, the iris-scanning identity venture co-founded by Sam Altman, presented its first sector package at Money20/20 in Las Vegas on October 18: a banking-and-finance edition of World ID. It uses cryptographic proofs so a financial institution can verify a person, not an automated system. AI fraud is the backdrop; the missing pieces are a confirmed … Read more
An unused gym membership, a shocking electricity bill, a debit from a firm you have never heard of: for any direct debit, you can ask your bank to send the money back, and the law gives the bank a deadline to answer. The rules come from Spain’s Royal Decree-Law 19/2018 on payment services, which transposed … Read more
Spain’s customer-service law exists, but its most visible duties are still phasing in. Law 10/2025 of 26 December, regulating customer support, took effect on 28 December 2025. Firms have twelve months from then to adapt. The right to a person and the three-minute average wait limit therefore become fully claimable only at the end of … Read more
This guide is for travellers booking a holiday flat or house who need the camera rules. It covers Airbnb’s policy since April 2024, Booking.com’s customer terms, Spanish law, arrival checks and what to do if a device should not be there. A platform rule protects you only when compliance is easy to verify. Airbnb simplified … Read more
When a card terminal in London, Prague, or New York asks whether to charge you in euros or the local currency, the answer is almost always the local currency. The prompt is the front end of dynamic currency conversion (DCC), a service that lets the merchant or its processor set the exchange rate instead of … Read more
Online shoppers rely on star ratings, but the legal ground beneath them is shifting. In Spain, publishing or commissioning fake reviews has been an unfair commercial practice since May 28, 2022. From late 2025, sites that display reviews must ensure they concern products or services bought or used in the previous 30 calendar days. Regulators … Read more
In Spain, poor indoor mobile coverage has a tempting DIY fix—a cheap signal booster—but installing one without operator approval is illegal. The Ministry for Digital Transformation warns that these devices operate in licensed spectrum, and violations can bring severe penalties. For most homes, the legal alternative is Wi-Fi calling. Boosters require operator approval: Only mobile … Read more