San Fransisco city, United States has banned use of facial recognition technology by police and other government departments. The move is contained in the Acquisition of Surveillance Technology Code which creates a rights ba...
The United States and China released a joint statement after holding consultations on trade. There was a consensus on taking effective measures to substantially reduce the United States trade deficit with China. This will entail a...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the occasion of its128th Session, adopted an Amending Protocol which updates its Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal D...
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) runs a consultation (from 18 May to 18 August) on the use of cloud services for financial institutions. The EBA guidance on which input is sought focuses on five areas: the security of data and...
A US court has dismissed two lawsuits that accused Facebook of supporting terrorism by allowing them to use the platform for the pursuit of terrorist goals. According to the judge, the law 'prevents courts from entertaining civil ...
The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and Device and Sensors Working Group have published a Candidate Recommendation of Media Captures and Streams. This document defines a set of JavaScript APIs that allow local media, in...
India's telecom regulator is exploring options to provide free Internet without violating net neutrality rules. Trai's Consultation Paper on Free Data explores three models: a toll-free platform for users where browsing will be fr...
A study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that digital technology does not narrow the gap between children from poor and rich families when it comes to education. Parents of lower income families are less likely ...
The US telecommunications company Charter Communications has completed the merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Charter has nearly quadrupled in size as a result of the transactions, going from 6.8 million...
Spamhaus has recently added new spam-related stats to its portfolio, providing information on thetop 10 domain name registrars with 'the worst reputation for spam domains'. Spamhaus explains that the stats are based on data repres...
A new study by three scholars from Harvard, Stanford and the University of California reveals that the Chinese government fabricates about 488 million social media comments a year. The article claims that the government hires abou...