Colombia Put Existing Privacy Law Inside the AI Lifecycle
Colombia's Circular 002 applies privacy by design, accountability and impact assessment to personal-data processing in AI systems.
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Tech tinkerer who spends too much time with home labs and Docker stacks. Into AI, Roman & Medieval history, and all things sci-fi. Avid traveller, reader and writer, with a passion for good food.
Ethiopia’s Privacy Law Is Also a Data-Sovereignty Law
Ethiopia's Personal Data Protection Proclamation combines familiar privacy duties with local-storage rules, transfer controls and a 72-hour breach clock.
Africa’s Digital Compact Is Not a Law. It Still Sets the Direction of Regulation.
The African Digital Compact and Continental AI Strategy are not binding laws, but they set a common direction for digital and AI governance.
Italy’s Law 90/2024 Connects Public-Sector Deadlines to Cybercrime Enforcement
Italy’s Law 90/2024 combines operational cybersecurity duties with stronger cybercrime provisions. For covered public organisations, the message is immediate: detect quickly, report in stages and put accountable security leadership in place. Law No. 90 of 28 June 2024 was published…
Brazil Defined the DPO Role. Independence Now Has to Be Operational.
Brazil's Resolution CD/ANPD No. 18 turns the LGPD's data protection officer role into a more concrete governance function.
South Africa’s Cloud-First Policy Comes With a Data-Sovereignty Warning
South Africa's final National Data and Cloud Policy promotes cloud-first government, but its security, sovereignty and implementation choices deserve equal attention.
France’s SREN Law Regulates Cloud Lock-In
France’s SREN law treats cloud exit as a market rule: switching fees, portability, interoperability and contract transparency are no longer matters that customers can safely postpone until migration day. Law 2024-449 on securing and regulating the digital space was published…
eIDAS 2.0 Changes Europe’s Identity Architecture
The European Digital Identity Framework is not simply a government login application. It creates a cross-border trust architecture for wallets, credentials and the organisations that request them. Regulation (EU) 2024/1183—the updated eIDAS framework—applied from 20 May 2024. It requires Member…
EpicInstaller on Windows Server 2022/2025 and Windows 10/11 (error 2738)
Since Microsoft deprecated vbscript.dll in October 2023, several installations, including the Epic Installer, have encountered significant issues. Users attempting to install the Epic Installer are frequently met with the error message: “The error code is 2738”. This error is particularly…
Brazil’s LGPD Breach Rule Turns ‘Reasonable Time’ Into Three Business Days
Brazil’s data-protection authority has replaced an open-ended breach-notification standard with a defined three-business-day clock and a detailed test for deciding which incidents must be reported. Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, or LGPD, has always required controllers to communicate…