A global competition entitled 'AirQo Ugandan Air Quality Forecast Challenge' has been launched in order to encourage data scientists to develop a digital solution that will predict the quality of air in Uganda. Thanks to the Zindi...
According to a report, authorities in Beijing, China have rolled out smart wristbands to detect fever in real time among final year students and teachers as schools open up. The temperature data collected by the wristbands will be...
According to the Bangkok Post, a decree to postpone the enforcement of most provisions of Thailand's new personal data protection act (PDPA) will soon be discussed by the government. The enforcement of the legislation ...
A recent study suggests that around 25% of the most-viewed coronavirus videos on YouTube contain misleading information. The study analysed the most widely viewed coronavirus-related videos in English up to the ends of March. Over...
In addition to the previously-announced measures tackling the spread of misinformation online, Facebook has alsoannounced restrictions to its live stream feature by implementing the 'one strike' policy: as of today users that stre...
Google has announced the opening of a privacy focused engineering center in Munich. It is to host more than 200 privacy engineers by the end of this year. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the new center will make Munich a global...
In the beginning of May, WhatsApp discovered that the service was used to install a sophisticated surveillance malware on an unknown number of smartphones. The hackers used the security flaw in WhatsApp's voice calling function th...
Afterfailing to pass the US Senate last fall, Congressman Bob Latta from the House of Representatives has reintroduced the State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends (SMART) IoT Act. The bill tasks the US Department of Comm...
The 13th Symposium on ICT, Environment and Climate Change was convened on 13 May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland under the theme: "the role of frontier technologies in combating climate change and achieving a circular economy." It tac...
US President Donald Trump announced that he would be working with the Chinese president to help telecommunications giant ZTE, after the US Commerce Department's recent decision to block the company from purchasing American-made co...
TheUK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has expressed concerns about the use of automatic facial recognition technology (FRT) by law enforcement authorities. Noting that, 'there may be significant public safety benefits' f...
Researchers from Munster University of Applied Sciences have reported vulnerabilities in the application of a well known and widely used encryption software calledPretty Good Privacy(PGP). In particular, the vulnerabilities, dubbe...