The Indian governmenthas issued an order pushing for the removal of the video-sharing application 'TIK TOK' from Google and Apple because it is a platform 'degrading culture and encouraging pornography, besides causing paedophiles...
Representatives of governments, workers' and employers' organisations agreed at a meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva that urgent actions should be carried out to convert a "toxic flood of electric and...
The European Parliament has approved a new regulation on platform-to-business trading practices. The aim is to curb unfair practices in online platforms and to help a establish fair, trusted, and innovation-driven environment. The...
Cisco Talos published a report on a new malicious cyber campaign, Sea Turtle, that affected 40 different organisations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Targets included ministries of foreign affairs, military org...
Following up on aninitial announcement made in June 2018, Google has recently opened its first artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in Africa, based in Accra, Ghana. The centre will bring AI researchers and engineers toget...
Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that thecompany had refused to sell its facial recognition technology to a law enforcement agency (LEA) in California, USA. The agency wanted the technology to be installed on officers' car...
In California, the USA,a strict net neutrality bill is closed to becoming law, as the Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee in the state Senate approved it, despite objections from telecom providers. The bill replicates ...
The European Commission isproposing new rules to make it easier and faster for police and judicial authorities to obtain the electronic evidence needed for investigation, prosecution and conviction of criminals and terrorists. The...
Thirty-four global companies -including Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Arm, ABB, Telefonica, Cisco and Dell among others -have signed The Cybersecurity Tech Accord, publicly committing to protect and empower civilians online and t...
Slovenia's telecoms regulator, the Agency for Communications Networks & Services (Agencija za komunikacijska omrezja in storitve, AKOS), said that broadband internet access will be included under the country's universal servic...
In Thailand,issuers of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and advocates of cryptocurrency exchanges have asked the Finance Ministry to delay or wave the application of capital gains tax on ICOs and cryptocurrency trading. In March, the...
Fourteen South Korean crypto exchanges set the self created set of rules for better joined action, and transparency. Among other rules, they agreed on having minimum equity of 5 billion won (around USD 1,8 milion), and to publish ...