Kenya's fintech startup, JointPesa, in partnership with Fineserve Africa, has launched an online payment solution to protect users from fraud. The application enables users to carry out transactions without fear of defaults, safet...
Studies conducted in Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria on 230 million app sessions from more than 21 000 apps and 4 000 panellists by Caribou Data shows that mod apps, whatsapp clones -such as GBwhatsapp and FMwhatsapp -are becomin...
The federal cabinet in Pakistan has introduced the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020 whereby social media companies are mandated to set up office in Pakistan within the next three months, create a data server i...
On 12 February, British Virgin Islands Governor Augustus Jaspert amended the Computer Misuse & Cybercrime Act of 2019. Jaspert confirmed that consideration was given to the provisions of the legislation and the concerns of the...
Mr Andrew Pattison (Digital business solutions manager, the World Health Organization (WHO)) met with tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, and Salesforce, stressing that ina...
The US Senator for New York, Kirsten Gilibrand, has announced the introduction a draft legislation, the Data Protection Act, aiming to establish a new independent data protection agency in the United States. According to Naked Sec...
According to a news report, 29 human rights focused organizations have in a joint signed statement demanded of the government of Myanmar to halt the restriction and shutdown of the Internet in the states of Rakhine and Chin. The c...
On 13 February 2020, Maarten Botterman, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sent a letter to Gonzalo Camarillo, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society ...
US Federal prosecutors have added new charges against Huawei, its U.S. subsidiaries and the chief financial officer. The charges include racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from U.S.-based companies. Huawei is also ...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is pursuing a multinational agreement to overhaul global taxation, it now looks into alternatives for binding dispute resolution mechanisms. As stated In the OECD Se...
The ECHR ruled in the case of Gaughran v. the United Kingdom, that the indefinite retention of biometric information -DNA, fingerprints, and photograph without proper safeguards is in violation of Art. 8 of the European Convention...
Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles ($62,845) each for their refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on Russian territory -a failure to comply with a Russian data law.