Global Digital Policy Roundup: September 2025
The roundup is produced by Digital Policy Alert, an independent repository of policy changes affecting the digital economy. If you have feedback or questions, please contact Maria Buza.
Overview. The roundup serves as a guide for navigating global digital policy based on the work of the Digital Policy Alert. To ensure trust, every finding links to the Digital Policy Alert entry with the official government source. The full Digital Policy Alert dataset is available for you to access, filter, and download. To stay updated, Digital Policy Alert also offers a customizable notification service that provides free updates on your areas of interest. Digital Policy Alert’s tools further allow you to navigate, compare, and chat with the legal text of AI rules across the globe.
Drawing from the Digital Policy Alert’s daily monitoring of developments in the G20 countries, it summarizes the highlights of August 2025 in four core areas of digital policy.
Content moderation, including Australia’s six new industry codes to protect minors online, Brazil’s bill on the protection of minors, China’s measures for platforms with significant impact on minors, the expansion and implementation of the UK Online Safety Act, and the European Commission’s enforcement of the Digital Services Act.
AI regulation, including the European Commission’s guidelines under the AI Act, Italy’s law on the governance of AI, China’s methods for identifying AI-generated synthetic content, and South Korea’s draft enforcement decree for the AI Act.
Competition policy, including the European Union’s first review of the Digital Markets Act and enforcement actions against Google and Microsoft, the UK’s rules on the strategic market status levy, China’s consultations on platform pricing, Brazil’s proposed digital markets regulation, and Canada’s penalty against KuCoin.
Data governance, including the EU Data Act’s entry into force, Russia’s data access and protection law for communications and information providers, China’s cybersecurity reporting and data standards consultations, and Canada’s report against TikTok over inappropriate collection of children’s data.
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