Your suppliers have owed you notice of exploited vulnerabilities since 11 S…

            ISSUE 8 · 26 OCTOBER 2026
          

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Your suppliers have owed you notice of exploited vulnerabilities since 11 September, and that duty has no deadline.

The authorities get 24 hours, then 72, then a final report. You get the words shall inform, with the timing left to a CSIRT's judgement if your supplier does not get round to it.

Matteo Ferri · 26 October 2026 · 5 min read

Sovereignty

Ageas says it has stopped categorising people by age and will read behaviour and health instead.

The essay does not say whether that means marketing or pricing, and for an insurer the difference between those two readings is Annex III of the AI Act. Seven of the figures underneath it come from research Ageas has not published, which its own reference list says plainly.

Preview

The battery passport arriving in February is not for the battery in your laptop.

It covers e-bike, industrial and electric vehicle batteries, and even there the dismantling information a repairer would want sits in the tier you need a legitimate interest to read.

Review

All six registers the EU identity wallet runs on are still being prepared.

Member States notify the Commission, the Commission compiles and publishes. Every one of the six pages where those lists are meant to appear says the first one is in preparation.

THE WIRE

Belgium's NIS2 conformity assessment for essential entities falls due 18 April 2027

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