Instagram has pushed on efforts to address hate speech and online abuse by launching a feature to filter messages with offensive words, phrases and emojis. In addition to this filter, the platform is also making it harder for user...
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) initiated an investigation against Alphabet for allegedly abusing its market position with YouTube. The FAS considers that YouTube has abused its dominant position by making biased choic...
Uber started testing a tool that allows Uber drivers to record their trips by video in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The tool, available through the partner app Sentinel, from the company Grip Mobility, allows drivers to use...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced draft rules for online platforms such as Facebook and Google to pay fair compensation to news outlets for news content. The decision to mandate compensation f...
The Egyptian National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) published a comparison between telecom service indicators in the second week of April and the second week of March 2020. The published figures demonstrated that the telecom...
Amid the COVID-19 lock-down of schools and universities, a number of governments in the MENA region kicked off online platforms to continue providing education services. In the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi University recently i...
In a joint letter, nearly 300 academics from around the world expressed their support for the deployment of a privacy-friendly contact tracing app. The letter details a number of key principles to be followed by governments and co...
Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API to enable healthcare providers to access real-time, unified healthcare data as the need for data interoperability is more important than ever during COVID-19. T...
Supported by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced they will start working with telecommunication companies in texting people direc...
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has issued a presolicitation notice for 'human-agent teaming research and engineering services' to study how soldiers interact with artificial intelligence (AI). Noting that advanced technolog...
According to the Guardian, the Australian government's effort to deploy a COVID-19 tracing app is raising privacy concerns. Experts are calling the government to make data collected from its Covid-19 tracing app exempt from use by...
Security Matters and BASF have partnered to develop tools that will manage the traceability and circularity process of recycled plastic. Security Matters is expected to contribute its digital technology solutions that should facil...