Veteran Filipino journalist, Maria Ressa, who was arrested on 14 February on charges of 'cyber-libel' was freed on bail soon after international condemnation. Ressa who is the CEO of news site Rappler, was taken under custody at t...
The World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) launched a digital platform called 'Technology for Integrity' on 15 March during its S?o Paulo meeting. The goal is to tap into new technologies as t...
Germany does not have any intention to procure autonomous weapons systems, according to the head of the country's Cyber and Information Space Command, Lieutenant General Ludwig Leinhos. Speaking at an artificial intelligence-focus...
A leaked draft has revealed that the European Commission has been preparing a recommendation on how members states should manage the challenge of illegal content online. Rather than encouraging member states to regulate online con...
In recent caseGoldman v. Breitbart, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York vested the controversial decision that in-line linking can be copyright infringement. Plaintiff Justin Goldman has took a picture of T...
Kaspersky Lab has published a2017 spam and phishing report. According to the report, the share of spam in e-mail traffic is down to 56.63%, having decreased by 1.68% since 2016. The US remains the biggest source of spam (13....
Mid-January, a German regional court in Berlinruled against Facebook's default privacy settings and use of personal data. It was found that Facebook does not provide its users enough information on the personal data it collects an...
The Authority for Regulation of the Electronic Communications and Postal Sectors (ARCEP) in France has published areport on 'Open Internet and devices', arguing that net neutrality is not enough to ensure an open Internet, and tha...
Major European telecoms companies are providing lower levels of digital rights such as transparency and consumer protections to countries in Africa than in European markets, according to Slate's comment on a new study, Droits...
Rights of persons with disabilities are high on the radar in the USA, as questions were raised about the new US Department of Education secretary, Betsy DeVos's, whose priorities were examined (Is Betsy DeVos against enforcing dis...
CNN is broadcasting on YouTube after Venezuela shuts off CNN in Spanish after report on fraudulent passports. The ban comes as President Nicolas Maduro said he wants CNN 'out of the country'. Government media dominate the new...
Speaking at a conference in San Francisco this week, IBM Resilient Chief Technology Officer Bruce Schneier called for the creation of a new government agency to focus on regulating the Internet of Things (IoT), especially from a s...