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Surveillance: the line so far
5 developments and 21 rules, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Rule · ProposedCLChile AI Bill
- Rule · ProposedBRBrazil AI Bill (Marco Legal da IA)
- Rule · In forceGBOSA intimate image (incl. deepfake) sharing offences
- Rule · Partly in forceEUEU AI Act
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- Rule · In forceAUDeepfake Sexual Material Act
- Rule · In forceSGElection deepfake ban
- Rule · In forceEUProhibited-practices and AI-definition guidelines
- Rule · In forceUSTAKE IT DOWN Act
- Rule · In forceGBDeepfake intimate image creation offence
- Rule · In forceUS-ILIllinois AI therapy ban (WOPR Act)
- Rule · In forcePEPeru AI Regulation
- Rule · Partly in forceUS-CACCPA ADMT regulations
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- Microsoft cuts an Israeli defence unit's access to Azure storage and AI services
A cloud and AI vendor enforced its acceptable-use terms against a government military customer, a precedent for how commercial AI providers can limit battlefield and intelligence use.
- Rule · In forceUSOMB M-26-04 ('Woke AI' procurement rules)
- CSET study of PLA tenders maps China's military AI shopping list
It gives an evidence base, beyond rhetoric, for what China's military is actually buying, which informs US export controls and allied threat assessments.
- Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refuses to drop two limits
It is the first use of a supply-chain-risk designation against a US frontier lab over its usage policy, signalling that vendor-imposed limits on military use can cost access to the whole defence market.
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- OpenAI agrees to deploy its models on Department of War classified networks
It shows a lab can win military work by enforcing limits through deployment architecture and contract terms rather than a usage policy, a template others may copy.
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- Rule · In forceBRTSE AI election rules 2026
- Rule · ProposedKEKenya AI Bill
- Rule · Partly in forceGBCrime and Policing Act 2026 (nudification tools, AI CSAM generators)
- Rule · In forceCAProtecting Victims Act (sexual deepfakes)
- Rule · In forceEUDigital Omnibus on AI
- California bans AI-only firing and requires notice of AI-driven mass layoffs
California is the first US state to put human control over AI-driven termination into law, setting the template unions are pushing elsewhere.
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