The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has launched a public consultation on a draft report presenting the findings for Study 1 of the Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP). Name collision refer...
Rwanda's new data protection bill is due to be adopted in March by the Rwandese Parliament. According to KT Press, the bill is currently under review, and the current minister for ICT and innovation explained it will be soon submi...
According to IAPP, The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) has published a paper on its interpretation of anonymized data under the EU's GDPR. This document presents the perspective of...
Hamburg data protection authority has fined Facebook 51.000 euros for failing to properly nominate a data protection officer for its local office in Germany. According to Bloomberg, the authority indicates this fine will send a wa...
The construction of a new subsea cable landing infrastructure that is expected to provide a plug and play capability for submarine cable systems has been announced for the Port of Marseille. Theis new infrastructure is expected to...
Bank of Valletta (BOV) has suspended all its operations, including ATM machines, point-of-sale systems, online banking, website, and communications systems, after unknown hackers broke into its network and transferred 13 million e...
Pakistan's Minister of Information, Mr Fawad Chaudhry,stated that 'a mechanism has been finalised to control hate speech on social media. There was a need to build a capacity to monitor social media and trace fake accounts". This ...
During the World Government Summit in Dubai,Dr Erin Marie Saltman, Facebook's policy manager for Counterterrorism in Europe, Middle East and Africa, declared that the company is constantly engaged in curbing hate speech and terror...
France's Digital Minister,Mounir Mahjoubi, announced the launch of a 'plan of action against hateful content online' which will require online platforms to strengthen the current preventive measures for the spread of hatespe...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a 'Declaration on the manipulative capabilities of algorithmic processes', drawing the attention of member states to the threats that automated systems pose to human righ...
At a meeting held on 13 February 2019 in the Vatican,Pope Francis and Microsoft President Brad Smith discussed, among other issues, the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). The discussions revolved around 'AI at the servic...
A newresearch conducted by EU Kids Online in Norway outlines the dilemma that while Norwegian children are familiar with internet and internet -related concepts, there is a disconnection in terms of the practical skills these conc...