There has been a spike in the online sexual abuse of children in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports Catherine De Bolle, head of the European police agency Europol. A rise in paedophile activities seeking access to illega...
India's Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced the launch of a unified programme which will include the existing portal for online content, a designated TV channel for each class, exclusive radio and community radio...
Malaysia's Ministry of Education's nationwide survey showed that out of 900 000 students only 6% and 9% own computers and tablets respectively, and 46% own smartphones. The fact that such devices are often shared among f...
According to Euractiv, Chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Andrea Jelinek has voiced concerns over the suspension of EU data protection rights in Hungary, at an event organised for the publication of EDPB's 20...
According to the Agence France Presse (AFP), the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, has ruled that Parisian authorities can no longer use drones to track people violating social-distancing rules. Two French hum...
A coalition of digital rights advocates urged the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) to answer questions about its plan to build a COVID-19 datastore with companies like Palantir, Faculty, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. ...
The overarching theme of the 2019 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be 'One World. One Net. One Vision.'
The Pacific Alliance -a coalition formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru -engaged in itsfourth round of negotiations from 12 to 18 May in Ottawa, Canada. Their aim is to confer an associate member status to Australia, Canada,...
Facebookreleased an update on its ongoing app investigation and audit. Upon the first stage of its review on the access the apps had into users' data, Facebook suspended around 200 apps. Following the promise that Facebook's CEO, ...
The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani,released a statement confirming that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has accepted to meet with political group leaders and the Chair and the Rapporteur of the Committee for...
Microsofthas issued a policy paper on Cybersecurity policy for the Internet of Things (IoT), noting that securing IoT is an urgent matter that requires collaboration across borders, sectors, and organisations. In the company's vie...
Theresa May's Conservatives hope to introduce a new tax on social media platforms, should the British Prime Minister get re-elected, a plan that has been included in their manifesto. The law would allow the government to impose a ...