The EEA Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) issued a report on the work of a task force set up to investigate 101 complaints filed by NGO NOYB following the CJEU Schrems II judgement and regarding the tools "Google Analytics" and "...
Beijing courts have ruled that WeChat chat records obtained without the employee's consent are inadmissible as evidence in legal proceedings. The ruling comes amid concerns about the privacy of online communications and the use of...
ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organisation, has called for a full ban on remote biometric surveillance and emotion recognition technologies ahead of the European Parliament's vote on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act....
FIATA, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, and the Global Shippers Forum have jointly issued a statement calling for improved standards of data protection and confidentiality in digital trading and boo...
The Domain Name System (DNS) root zone, which is a crucial part of the global DNS is soon to be receiving a new record type, called ZONEMD. This new protocol, developed by Verisign and set out in RFC 8976, calls for a cryptographi...
The EU's proposed draft Cyber Solidarity Act aims to enhance EU cross-border coordination for cyberattack prevention and response. Such legislation was suggested in response to an increased threat of significant cyberattacks follo...
The US software giant NCR disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack. The company recorded an outage from a single data centre on 12 April, which was impacting a limited number of Aloha points of sale applications of the res...
The Starlink global internet satellite system plans to open an office in Ukraine, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov revealed. Fedorov ordered that the necessary procedures for cer...
The Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have identified a new set of targets for universal and meaningful digital connectivity to be achieved by ...
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Australian Ministers have identified a national approach to digital identity as a key priority for the nation. This was announced in a communique issued following the Data and Digital Ministers' Meeting on 16 April 2021. Th...
The Bank of England, in conjuction with the Treasury have formed a joint Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce to coordinate the exploration of a UK CBDC. The terms of reference of the taskforce include exploration of use...