[1] A European Union committee on cash register fraud has been established, and legislation mandating tamper-proof POS systems has been proposed in Germany in 2008 (INSIKA) and introduced in Quebec, Canada, on September 1, 2010.
[2] In Australia, activities involving electronic sales suppression tools that relate to people or businesses that have Australian tax obligations are banned since 4 October 2018, and subject to criminal and administrative penalties.
[3] In Russia, the electronic secure memory device (EKLZ) was made mandatory to be part of any cash register.
Then, new online cash registers use a combination of the special secure fiscal storage and the immediate transmission of the data to the tax service.
In 2021, the state of Massachusetts drafted provisions into their budget[4] establishing penalties for the use of selling, purchasing, installing, or possessing zappers.