Zimbabwe based African mobile network operator Econet Wireless has released its 2020 annual report. The report covers the regulatory, operational, and financial aspects of the Zimbabwe telecommunications environment as well ...
After being charged by the Indian government for non-compliance, Twitter has taken down 97% of the handles flagged by the government in relation to the widespread farmers' protests against recently enacted agricultural laws. The g...
The California Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a lower court's decision involving the misclassification of workers as contractors against Uber and Lyft. The decision will not reclassify drivers as employees but will allow th...
The City Council of Minneapolis, USA, has approved an ordinance that prohibits city authorities from buying facial recognition technology (FRT) or using data derived from it. In making the decision, the council has considered conc...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has postponed the 40th Root Key Signing Key Ceremony, initially scheduled to take place on 12 February 2020 in El Segundo, California, USA. On 11 February, a mal...
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has implemented new rules, the Information and Cyber Security Risk Management Guidelines, to guide banks to overcome cybersecurity risks. Governor Dalitso Kabambe, registrar financial institution R...
In a statement, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) expressed its concerns over Facebook dating feature. Facebook Ireland had first contacted the Irish DPC in relation to its intention to roll-out a new Dating feature in th...
In a hearing in front of the US House Committee on Financial Services, the US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powel said that Facebook's lead cryptocurrency Libra was a reason for the central banks to start testing the possibility...
Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China have managed to entangle two quantum memories (the quantum equivalent of classical computing memory) over 50 kilometres of fibre optic cable. The most ...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for a strong set of consumer protection rights in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making. The resolution states that automated d...
Based on the analyses of all 225 inputs received, from 84 countries, following the IGF 2020 Call for Validation of issues, the MAG decided that the 15th IGF programme will be structured along four thematic tracks: 1) Data; 2) Incl...
On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2020, UNICEF announced that along with the Bangladesh ICT Division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, they will be training and certifying one million sch...