The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 11 partner organisations of the Council of Europe Platform jointly launched their annual report on media freedom in Europe with an aim to promote the protection of journalism and safety of...
At the Milken Institute MENA Summit, Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, argued there is 'no limit' to how Amazon is storing and listening to private conversations, and that these recordings 'could potentially be used aga...
The European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the Commission announced in a press release that a political agreement was reached on the draft of the Copyright Directive, a result of trilogue being held since Septemb...
A Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, presented by Daniel R. Coats, director of National Intelligence, sees cyber-threats among top global threats in 2018. The assessment warns of the risks of insecure de...
Researchers at Google Brain and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been working on demonstrating thatartificial intelligence (AI) agents can learn from implicit social feedback from humans, and use that feedback to imp...
The US Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats, released the annual 'Worldwide threat assessment of the US Intelligence Community', listing artificial intelligence (AI) and other disruptive technologies among the areas tha...
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has launched a new tool to remove jihadist content from the Internet, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The tool is mainly developed for smaller content providers that do not have the capac...
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, said he is 'particularly concerned at the tightening of the space for free speech at a time where its promotion and protection should be of the utmost importance', referr...
The Swedish Court of Patent and Market Appeals ordered an Internet service provider (ISP) to block access to The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer (a Swedish streaming portal), following EU laws and similar judgments in France, Finlan...
Recently developed gay emojis have become a controversial topic in Indonesia. The Indonesian government has announced that it wants to block the same-sex emojis from the messaging apps, as it considers it to be 'a matter of politi...
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has published aworking paper on 'How can cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can play a role in building social and solidarity finance?'. The paper analy...
GSMA has publisheda set of security guidelines for the Internet of Things (IoT), laying down several recommendations on how the industry (IoT service providers, device manufacturers, developers, and network operators) can mitigate...