Facebook will restrict the visibility of users and groups that accrue violations and, in some circumstances, it will remove them in order to reduce the spread of misinformation and harmful content in the platform. This policy chan...
Russian news agencies reportedly affirmed that the Russian government will block Twitter in one month if the platform does not comply with a request to remove banned content. Last week, Twitter had its speed slowed in the cou...
Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada just joined a lawsuit filed by Texas against Google in December 2020, according to Reuters. This brings the number of plaintiffs to 15 states and territories. Google is accused of breaching antitru...
According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), two telecommunications companies in Germany and Austria have granted their governments access to customers' phone data in an effort to track the COVID-19 ...
Ghana's electoral management body, the Electoral Commission, has issued a statement announcing plans to continue with preparation of the voters roll in spite of the coronavirus pandemic. This comes after the President banned publi...
Drivers of ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are seeking sick leave as employees and not contractors in the San Francisco Superior Court. The drivers' lawyer requested an immediate hearing on an injunction from a federal judge,...
Uber and Lyft are suspending the pool ride feature, which offers riders to share the car with other passengers heading in the same direction. The measure applies to the US, Canada, London and Paris. Uber affirms to be committ...
The Maryland legislature passed H.B. 732, which proposes a new tax on Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax. "Digital advertising services" broadly includes "advertisement services on a digital interface, including advertis...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Public Interest Registry (PIR) have agreed on a new timeline for ICANN's review of the proposed .org registry sale. Thus, ICANN has until 20 April t...
Danone and Microsoft have partnered to launch the AI Factory for AgriFood programme that aims to provide support to start-ups specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in the food industry sector. The projec...
WhatsApp announced the launch of two initiatives to support the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic -the global launch of the WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub in partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF...
The UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock directed the National Health Services (NHS) Digital to step up its efforts in collecting and analysing data, and providing services to help healthcare workers to ta...