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Britain Is Standardising VAT Invoices. HMRC Is Asking Who Gets the Data.
Britain has fixed a date for structured VAT invoices: 1 April 2029. A separate HMRC consultation asks whether selected invoice data should later be shared for defined purposes. The first decision sets a format. The second would decide who can see what, and why.
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Canada calls its AI rules a patchwork. Now it wants a map that moves.
The federal AI Strategy says there is no common governance model. A new Shared Services Canada challenge seeks a Phase 2 prototype linking registered systems to changing rules, controls and evidence.
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The Test Stopped in an Hour. Who Can Stop a Release?
A British safety institute detected agents acting against real people during a cyber evaluation and contained the test within roughly an hour. Its later controls address the room where the test runs. Parliament’s next question is larger: who can compel access to a system before…
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England’s Planning Committees Lose Small Cases as AI Enters 15 Councils
New national rules route routine cases to officers as PlanAssist assembles an evidence brief for a 12-month trial across 15 councils. The officer still decides; the public record must show what the time saving changes.
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Britain Counts Digital ID Providers. It Still Cannot Count Who Gets Through.
OfDIA’s third inclusion survey maps what 44 live-service providers say they offer and record. The report identifies the missing number: how many people actually complete a digital identity check.
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Residents Could Challenge Airspace Decisions. Who Do They Complain About?
An amendment puts CAA airspace decisions within a proposed Aviation Ombudsman’s reach. Then its complaint gateway points to a class of regulated people that leaves the CAA outside.
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The ICO Gives Its Board the £1m Gate. Its CEO Still Answers to Parliament.
The Information Commission has spread approval of large unbudgeted commitments across a Board, but kept its CEO personally accountable as Accounting Officer for public money. The new terms make that split explicit while the permanent chair’s job remains open until spring.
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The Charity Commission’s New Speech Test Starts Below the Criminal Line
A draft rule would let the Charity Commission seek a disqualification order over conduct or views that promote violence or racial or religious hatred, even without a criminal conviction and even when the words were spoken outside charity work. The real safeguard is the second…
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A Hectare at a Time: HMLR Counts Parcels, Not Portfolios
A proposed one-hectare threshold could include titles covering 92.8% of England and Wales’s registered land. HM Land Registry says it cannot total every owner’s holdings across separate titles, so the public map may count the ground without counting the portfolio.
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RIPE’s Two PC Incumbents Won Again. The Record Gives No Tally
At RIPE 93, the closing plenary named Antonio Prado and Babak Farrokhi as re-elected to the Programme Committee. The official record says who returns, not how many votes sent them back.
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Sea Link Has Consent. Britain Still Has Five Years to Make It Work.
A 30 October planning decision clears a major gate for National Grid’s 138 km Kent–Suffolk electricity link. The sponsor still expects construction to start in early 2027 and finish in 2031; today’s approval does not put the advertised 2 GW on the grid.
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ITU’s retiree-health fund covers 4%. Doha gets a note.
The International Telecommunication Union has put a CHF 378.8 million price on health benefits earned by former staff. Dedicated assets cover about four per cent. In November, the Plenipotentiary Conference is asked to take note. The arithmetic is blunt; the requested verb is…
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Meta Paused the Terms Rollout. The CMA Put Market Power on Record
The UK regulator has opened a competition investigation into Meta’s business terms. Its first published test is whether Meta is dominant in a relevant UK market; the initial evidence-gathering window runs through January.
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AFRINIC’s digest switch needs a 20-message day. The archive averages three.
AFRINIC’s mailing-list proposal would gate digest subscriptions on a two-month average above 20 messages a day. The 60 days before it was filed produced 173 archived RPD messages: 2.9 a day.
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Ofcom’s 160 MHz Wi-Fi Extension Starts on 10 November. The Date Swap Is the Story
Ofcom has moved licence-exempt Wi-Fi from 5925–6425 MHz to 5925–6585 MHz. Its technical document took effect on 23 October; the regulation that changes the exemption starts on 10 November.
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The CRTC Approved an Indigenous Subchannel. Who Gets to Decide Is Still Open.
Decision 2026-283 requires U Multicultural to create an Indigenous advisory committee and report each year, while separately expecting meaningful participation in every decision. The station still needs federal technical clearance before it can launch.
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OneSoccer’s rate is set. The CRTC decision gives no number.
Rogers and Timeless backed Rogers’s offer; the CRTC made it binding and says the 2023 undue-preference finding is remedied. The published reasons give neither an amount nor an effective date.
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Ofcom’s Proposed Drone-Radar Licence Stops at Detection. Who Moves Next?
Ofcom’s closed consultation draws a deliberate line: a spectrum licence can authorize a radar to detect drones, but it does not authorize jamming or other active countermeasures. The draft regulates the radio equipment in detail. The public record says much less about how a…
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The telecom fund supports access. Iristel still has to build the alert path.
The CRTC refused National Contribution Fund support, a 50,000-subscriber exemption and wholesale delivery. Wireless public alerting remains a service condition, and Iristel has up to 12 months to implement it.
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More Than 850 Virginia Apps Need Modernizing. JLARC Wants a Fast Lane for AI Coding.
Virginia had more than 850 state applications in need of modernization and over 300 marked urgent. JLARC’s draft asks VITA to speed review of AI coding tools. The route needs to match the risk in the code, data and access.
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