According to theBBC, online tools which track user behaviour for advertisers have been found on a swathe of EU public health websites, including the UK's National Health Service (NHS) and gov.uk websites. The data protection compl...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) published ahow-to guide titled 'Mobile Device Security: Cloud and Hybrid Build' for public and private compan...
The US-based Stanford Universityannounced the official launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), whose mission is to advance AI research, education, policy, and practice, to improve the hum...
Prior to theSecond High-level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation 20-22 March 2019, UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) launched 'South-South Galaxy' which is a global knowledge sharing and partnership platform tha...
Mona Hoiness sued an internet company for defamation in Oslo, alleging that her honour was infringed because of sexual harassment in three comments made anonymously by internet users. She lost her case against the online intermedi...
The government of the Netherlands has announced plans to invest more in digital literacy to ensure easy accessibility and usage of ICT enabled services. The devoted budget amount of EUR 425 million for digital literacy coveri...
An international coalition of 31 civil society and technology experts asked the Indian Prime Minister's Office to withdraw the proposed changes to section 79 of the Information Technology Act 2000, which regulates online inte...
News thatan autonomous Uber test car driving in Tempe, Arizona (USA) was involved in a fatal accident has lead to concerns about safety, liability, and insurance issues around autonomous cars. At the time of the crash, the car was...
An experimental Uber self driving-vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. Due to the high degree of automation in which the car was operating -level 3 on the SAE automation scale -the accident was the first of it...
An experimental Uber self driving-vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. Due to the high degree of automation in which the car was operating -level 3 on the SAE automation scale -the accident was the first of it...
NIC.LV, the registry operators for Latvia's country code top-level domain (ccTLD) -.lv -has announcedplans to change to the .lv domain name registration policy and the registry-registrar agreement, to bring them in line with the E...
French prime minister Edouard Philippe has announced that the country willtoughen its stance against hate speech, to make sure that social media companies more proactively remove racist content from the Internet. According to Phil...