The Central Bank of Kenya has issued emergency directives for mobile money use aimed at reducing handling of cash. This comes after Kenya registered the third case of Corona virus, necessitating a raft of measures for curbing the ...
The Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) publisheda report which looks into legal remedies for attacks against journalists happening online. It specifical...
The Chinese Ministry of Education announced plans to promote online learning. The plans include encouraging a total of 10 million teachers and students to sign up to online learning programmes, selecting 40 online learning platfor...
Taxi drivers in Istanbul, Turkey, have filed legal action against Uber, accusing the company of operating an unlicensed taxi service in Turkey. Claiming that the Uber business model is 'endangering their livelihoods', Istanbul tax...
The US Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five Russian entities including Russian intelligence services for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election and the attacks on powergrid. A...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched a report ontax challenges arising from digitalisation, in which countries agree to review the current international tax system in the context of the di...
Google has developed a new algorithm for DeepMind, its artificial intelligence (AI) solution, allowing it to retain knowledge of all of its previously taught skills. As explained byThe Merkle, developers were previously able to te...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which administersUniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases, has reported that trademark owners filed 3036 UDRP cases in 2016, an increase of 10% over the previo...
In the context of theICANN58 meeting, held in Copenhagen, on 11-16 March, several governments represented on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee have expressed strong dissatisfaction with ICANN's Board decision to allow the re...
The Generic Names Supporting Organisation within ICANN haschartered a working group tasked with reviewing all rights protection mechanisms in all generic top level domains (gTLDs). Rights protection mechanisms, such as the Uniform...
Google announced it has includeda new section in its Transparency Report dedicated to reporting on the use of encryption on its own websites and across the web. According to the company, over 75% of requests to its servers are usi...
A recent report notes that only 11 per cent of its information and communication technology workforce in Australia is over 55. Australian Federal Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan is concerned that this is a result of age...