Members of Parliament of India Lok Sabha House of the People flagged out how the COVID-19 crisis unveiled a digital divide in India where some students do not have access either to the internet or other medium of learning aids, i....
According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the Croatian data protection authority has fined 20 million euro a credit institution for violating the EU's GDPR. The authority stated that the company b...
The Central Bank of Kenya has issued emergency directives for mobile money use aimed at reducing the handling of cash. This comes after Kenya registered the third case of coronavirus, necessitating a raft of measures for curbing t...
As governments, public and private organisations throughout Europe are taking measures to contain and mitigate COVID-19, EU's EDPB addressed rules for data processing in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. In a statement, the Ch...
Following a public engagement process, Ethos (the entity seeking to acquire the .org registry) has announced additional measures to strengthen the previously announced Public Internet Commitment (PIC) and .org Stewardship Council....
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the only country in the Arab region that has been building a digital infrastructure that can support e-classrooms. The Ministry of Education was forced to launch it on a nation-level with schools ...
The US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-Rate programme, funded by the Universal Service Fund, E-Rate provides discounts for telecommunications, Internet access, and internal connections to eligible schools and lib...
The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research has announced that it will support other countries' online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a leader in developing and deploying various digital learning tools, the country ...
Three U.S. officials said that federal officials began confronting a 'deliberate effort' by a foreign entity to sow fears of a nationwide quarantine amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The officials did not name the foreign entity they be...
Due to the rapid spread of coronavirus in Spain, the government declared a state of emergency on 13 March and ordered all 43 million citizens to stay inside. On the same day, BBC footage appeared showing a police drone patrolling ...
Maldito Bulo, a fact-checking organisation in Spain certified by the International Fact Checking Network, launched a special edition to debunk coronavirus related disinformation. Spain became one of the countries with the largest ...
Brave, a web browser company, has filed a formal GDPR complaint against Google for infringing the GDPR "purpose limitation" principle. The GDPR purpose limitation principle requires that organizations only use personal data for th...