Tropical storm Cyclone Idai caused massive human destruction in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi with hundreds of deaths and thousands of displacements. Among the international aid that reached the region wassupport from the Inter...
Members of the Japanese ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, questioned executives from Google over the company's data protection practices. According tothe Japan Times, the party headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also...
According to theSofia Globe, Bulgaria's Constitutional Court indicated that it received a request from more than fifty MPs to rule on the constitutionality of recent amendments to the country's personal data protection act, follow...
A study made by the Alliance for Accountable Internet (A4AI) based on the newly released Mobile Broadband Pricing data for Q4 2018 has shown that the average price of a gigabyte (GB) of data in relation to income increased over th...
According to the Mobile Economy Report 2019, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have seen a significant growth in mobile content in Swahili. The number of mobile apps in the language increased from around 5,000 in 2014 to almost 30,0...
Acourt in Egypt has suspended the licences of Uber and competitor Careem, in a case filed last year by 42 taxi drivers in the country. In their case, the drivers argued that Uber and Careem were illegally using private cars as tax...
A report titled 'Internet of Things: Realising the potential of a trusted smart world', and published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and Petras, explores policy challenges related to advancements in the field of the Intern...
The first Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) meeting of the IGF 2018 preparatory cycle was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
New technology aims to give victims of sexual violence a more positive reporting experienceaccording to Zosia Bielski of Canada's Globe and Mail. Bielski presents two online, encrypted tools, Botler AI and Spot, that offer 'neutra...
Expediahas found evidence of hackers gaining access to as many as 880,000 credit cards by hacking into an older version of Orbitz's website, a travel booking platform now a subsidiary of Expedia. Orbitz has confirmed the hack that...
Researchers at the University of Rochesterhave developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can identify racist code words on social media. The algorithm is aimed to address cases in which individuals use a code t...
Necurs, currently believed to be the world's largest botnet, has come online again. Necurs distributed malware in the form of malicious attachments till December 2016 when its operation went suddenly offline. The Talos Security In...