India and Japan's water departments signed MoC for developing long-term cooperation in the following topics: the field of water and Delta management, increasing the exchange of information, knowledge, technology, and scientific re...
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) granted
New privacy policy of WhatsApp in India has been under intense scrutiny in India, including questioning of its validity under the Indian law at the Deli High Court. The public interest litigation (Dr Seema Singh v. UOI), alleges v...
To protect the rights of children online, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in South Korea is revising the act on the protection of children and juveniles against sexual abuse by making online grooming, or luring ch...
Recently the the Thai police uncovered 500,000 child sexual abuse images while investigating an international child sex abuse ring operating from Thailand and Australia. The accused operated a child sexual abuse ring in the garb o...
According to ZDNet, the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner's office (OAIC) has asked for the inclusion of additional privacy measures in the draft Data Availability and Transparency (DAT) Bill. This bill ...
Telecommunications giant MTN has taken steps to mitigate the effects of coronavirus across its major markets in Africa. In a blogpost, the South Africa based company announced a range of measures from free data packages to lowered...
Ethos (the entity seeking to acquire the .org registry) has launched a selection process for the .org Stewardship Council. The role of the council will be to 'ensure and support the Public Interest Registry's (PIR's) com...
According to the BBC, an open letter published by a group of "responsible technologists" warns, in reference to the expected release in the UK of an app to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak, that by failing to protect privacy the publi...
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has advised parents to protect their children from the negative influence of the internet.NCC shared that the "Child online protection" program is aimed at equipping parents with the ...
COVID-19 vaccine testing facility has been hit by a ransomware group that initially promised not to target medical organizations. The victim was Hammersmith Medicines Research, a British company that previously tested the Ebola va...
Researchers at Stanford University and Georgetown University in America have found that automated speech recognition (ASR) systems present racial disparities. They conducted a study in which five ASR systems developed by Amazon, A...