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  <title><![CDATA[CircleID]]></title>
  <link>https://circleid.com/topics/policy_regulation</link>
  <description>CircleID - Policy & Regulation</description>
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  <dc:rights>Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-01T16:03:00+00:00</dc:date>

  
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      <title><![CDATA[When a Link Becomes a Border: The Quiet Geopolitics of Internet Access]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/when&#45;a&#45;link&#45;becomes&#45;a&#45;border&#45;the&#45;quiet&#45;geopolitics&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;access</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn short-link anomaly in Iran reveals how sanctions, corporate compliance and geolocation controls can translate geopolitical boundaries into infrastructure-level restrictions, creating an Internet that remains globally connected while becoming functionally unequal.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-05T11:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Canada Sets National Principles for Responsible Data-Centre Development]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/canada&#45;sets&#45;national&#45;principles&#45;for&#45;responsible&#45;data&#45;centre&#45;development</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Canada's voluntary framework asks data-center developers to cover electricity-system costs, limit water and environmental impacts, disclose local effects and deliver national benefits as the country expands sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-04T09:46:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS Plans 420 Tbps Subsea Cable Between United States and Japan]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/aws&#45;plans&#45;420&#45;tbps&#45;subsea&#45;cable&#45;between&#45;united&#45;states&#45;and&#45;japan</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AWS plans a 420 Tbps transpacific subsea cable linking Washington state and Japan by 2029, adding a geographically distinct route designed to strengthen cloud connectivity and reduce reliance on concentrated Pacific landing corridors.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-03T08:33:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[4iG and SpaceX Plan Starlink Mobile Rollout Across Hungary and Western Balkans]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/4ig&#45;and&#45;spacex&#45;plan&#45;starlink&#45;mobile&#45;rollout&#45;across&#45;hungary&#45;and&#45;western&#45;balkans</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[4iG and SpaceX plan direct-to-device Starlink services across four European markets, alongside secured government communications, but national spectrum approvals and key details of the proposed sovereign infrastructure remain unresolved.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-02T08:27:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thirty-Five Years Later, Moscow Comes Looking for the Soviet Union&#8217;s Domain]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/thirty&#45;five&#45;years&#45;later&#45;moscow&#45;comes&#45;looking&#45;for&#45;the&#45;soviet&#45;unions&#45;domain</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russia is imposing state identity verification on .su, the Soviet Union's surviving domain, as researchers uncover criminal infrastructure across the namespace and ICANN pursues a retirement process that could eventually remove it from the global root.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Researchers Warn EU AI Rules Are Deepening Reliance on Big Tech]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/researchers&#45;warn&#45;eu&#45;ai&#45;rules&#45;are&#45;deepening&#45;reliance&#45;on&#45;big&#45;tech</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts/researchers&#45;warn&#45;eu&#45;ai&#45;rules&#45;are&#45;deepening&#45;reliance&#45;on&#45;big&#45;tech</guid>

      <description><![CDATA[Researchers argue the EU's AI framework increasingly makes major technology companies co-stewards of regulation, raising concerns that reliance on private infrastructure and technical expertise could strengthen incumbents' influence over how AI rules are implemented.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T15:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Digital Embassies: Could Africa Rethink Digital Sovereignty?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/digital&#45;embassies&#45;could&#45;africa&#45;rethink&#45;digital&#45;sovereignty</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Estonia's data embassy model offers African governments a different approach to digital sovereignty, combining cross-border infrastructure, legal safeguards and geographic redundancy to keep critical state systems secure, recoverable and operational during major disruptions.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T09:24:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Terminates Two Registrars as DNS Abuse and Compliance Failures Escalate]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;terminates&#45;two&#45;registrars&#45;as&#45;dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;compliance&#45;failures&#45;escalate</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;terminates&#45;two&#45;registrars&#45;as&#45;dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;compliance&#45;failures&#45;escalate</guid>

      <description><![CDATA[ICANN has terminated two registrar accreditation agreements after unresolved compliance failures, citing Trustname's handling of DNS abuse and IPIP's failures involving RDAP, registration data escrow, accreditation fees, and access to non-public registration data.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-29T12:11:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Missing Privacy Debate Around IPv6]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;missing&#45;privacy&#45;debate&#45;around&#45;ipv6</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[IPv6 solves the Internet's address shortage and simplifies networking, but its technical elegance may carry a hidden cost: shifting privacy protections from architectural constraints toward policies controlled by Internet providers, corporations and governments.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-28T13:05:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN’s New Data Sharpens the Picture of DNS-abuse Enforcement]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;updates&#45;dns&#45;abuse&#45;enforcement&#45;data</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's updated DNS-abuse data distinguishes allegations from actionable complaints and malicious registrations from compromised domains, offering a clearer test of whether tougher contractual requirements are strengthening enforcement or simply generating a larger volume of reports.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-28T09:41:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is Rewriting the Internet. But in Whose Language?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/ai&#45;is&#45;rewriting&#45;the&#45;internet&#45;but&#45;in&#45;whose&#45;language</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI is becoming a gateway to the internet, but thousands of languages remain excluded. Closing the gap requires multilingual infrastructure, representative training data and policies that make linguistic inclusion a foundation of the AI era.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-27T11:20:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond Protocol and Policy: Why Project Jake is Reshaping the Architecture of Internet Trust]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;protocol&#45;and&#45;policy&#45;why&#45;project&#45;jake&#45;is&#45;reshaping&#45;the&#45;architecture&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;trust</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;protocol&#45;and&#45;policy&#45;why&#45;project&#45;jake&#45;is&#45;reshaping&#45;the&#45;architecture&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;trust</guid>

      <description><![CDATA[Project Jake aims to bridge the divide between internet protocols and policy, offering registries, law enforcement and rights holders a decentralised framework for accessing domain-registration data securely while navigating privacy laws and institutional gridlock.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-24T10:49:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open-Weight AI: Open to Whom?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/open&#45;weight&#45;ai&#45;open&#45;to&#45;whom</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts/open&#45;weight&#45;ai&#45;open&#45;to&#45;whom</guid>

      <description><![CDATA[The push for open-weight AI promises broader access and competition, but true openness requires more than releasing model weights. Compute, infrastructure, training data, security, and control ultimately determine who can meaningfully benefit from open AI.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-24T08:40:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;criminal&#45;infrastructure&#45;beyond&#45;definitions&#45;and&#45;blocklists</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Research suggests criminals may control a striking share of newly registered gTLD domains, raising questions about whether ICANN's definitions, contractual safeguards and enforcement mechanisms are keeping pace with the industrial scale of technology-facilitated harm.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-21T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[After the Close: What the 2026 gTLD Round Has Already Revealed]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/after&#45;the&#45;close&#45;what&#45;the&#45;2026&#45;gtld&#45;round&#45;has&#45;already&#45;revealed</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's 2026 gTLD round drew more than 1,600 applications, led by ambitious portfolio investors. But scant brand disclosures and new rules banning private settlements could make contention costlier and reshape the economics of domain ownership.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-19T09:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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