TikTok has removed an Australian vigilante account that attempts to lure alleged paedophiles to meetings and capture the confrontation on film. A TikTok spokesperson stated that 'We also do not permit users to encourage others to ...
The IGF 2020 has opened several calls for session proposals and other process activities to be hosted at the 15th annual IGF meeting in Katowice, Poland (2 -6 November 2020). The Deadline to apply for the above-mentioned calls is ...
After a year of debate the parliament of Albania passed the anti-defamation package, that is supposed to counter the spread of disinformation and hate speech. These laws allow the Albanian Media Authority (AMA) and the Authority o...
Uganda's President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, signed a new data protection legislation on February 25th. The bill had been passed by the parliament in December 2018, pending the president's signature to become law. According to...
Ofcom, the UK telecom regulator has introduced a new code of practisewhich requires Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide their users with a minimum expected broadband speed, failure which the customers can leave the I...
The Irish data protection authorityreported it received 2 864 privacy complaints from the public since the EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) was enacted in May and 4 113 in total for 2018, up 56% compared to 2017. Helen...
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) weapons may be much more difficult to control than nuclear weapons, argued former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, during an event organised by the Massachusetts Institute of T...
By the new reportfrom the New York Times, companies FaceBook andTelegram,are step closer to the launching of its own cryptocurrency that will be used on Telegram, Facebook and his related service WhatsApp chat platform. Facebook i...
Firms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter have written a letter to the British government calling for a clear differentiation between illegal and harmful content. The letter was co-ordinated by the trade body Internet Associat...
A mining company in Myanmar's Kachin state, detained and assaulted two journalists from Myitkyina Journal -an independent, local weekly
Doug Ducey,governor of Arizona, USA, issued an executive order outlining the conditions under which autonomous vehicles can be tested and operated on public roads. The order, which replaces an earlier version released in 2015, spe...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) delivered a landmark judgement on Gambian speech offence laws. The claim had been brought to court by Gambian journalists arrested and detained under the count...