Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published a reportWomen's Rights: Forbidden Subject to mark International Women's Day. The RSF announcement states that the report 'sheds light on the difficulties that journalists -both m...
The European Commission hasrecommended a set of operational measures for states and the Internet industry in an effort to improve their response to illegal online content, including 'terrorist content, incitement to hatred and vio...
A group of researchers at the University of Washington's Network Security Labhas shown that the artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by Google's Jigsaw to spot online harassment and abuse can be deceived by 'slightly pertur...
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authorityhas allocated a pool of recovered IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses to Regional Internet Registries. The returned address space is to be added to the RIRs' free pool and distributed according to ...
The2016 Global Encryption and Key Management Trends Study, carried out by the Ponemon Institute and covering organisations in 12 countries (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil, the Russian Fede...
This week, Kiddle.co was launched -a new search engine designed for children. However, the search engine has already received criticism in what it does and does not filter. For example, the words 'gay' and 'lesbian' have cont...
The EU Commission's guidelines on how to apply existing EU legislation to the sharing economyare expected to be published in June 2016. Recognising the rapid growth of services like Uber, and the necessity to deal with the so-call...
Technology covers an important part of India's Union Budget, which was presented by finance minister, Arun Jaitley, on Monday. Technology is seen as a social and economic booster, and will be used across sectors -'be it to in...
The Article 29 Working Party -which gathers EU data protection authorities -is reviewing the texts issued by the European Commission that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield. The texts include Privacy Shield Principles whic...
A paper published in the Journal of Higher Education shows that participation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) follows a consistent pattern over time and illustrates the influence of course design on participation. The paper...
Facebook Latin America VP Diego Dzodan was detained in Sao Paolo over Whatsapp's refusal to hand over data to the Brazilian authorities in relation to a drug trafficking case. This development follows a previous ruling in December...
A recentreport published by Avenue4's on the State of the IPv4 Market in 2015 shows that the IPv4 market has grown considerably during the last year. The report focuses on the ARIN region (which depleted its stock of free pool IPv...